Berkeley enacts resolution against Nigeria..

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  “Nigeria; Nazi Germany of the 90s”
                  - Ibrahim H. Muhammed 
  
  For Immediate Release
  (Please distribute widely)
  
  City of Berkeley, California enacts binding selective purchasing
  resolution against  Nigeria
  
  Contact: Nasiru Ikharo  at (317)216-4590 or FNM@ix.netcom.com 
  
  Wednesday, July 15, 1997
  
          The city of Berkeley, in the State of California, U.S.A, 
  yesterday
  (July, 15, 1997) adopted a binding resolution “establishing a policy
  prohibiting the City from contracting with or purchasing from those who
  do business in or with Nigeria”.  This followed the recommendation of
  the February 03, 1997 meeting of the City’s Peace and Justice
  Commission, which stated inter alia  that the City should adopt a
  selective purchasing policy against the General Sanni Abacha led illegal
  Nigerian military junta, which illegally seized the electoral mandates
  of all the duly elected representatives of the Nigerian people,
  including the detained legitimate President of Nigeria, Chief Moshood
  K.O. Abiola.
  
          The issue of Nigeria was brought before the City Council, and
  coordinated thereafter by the Free Nigeria Movement (FNM), working in
  conjunction with other organizations and individuals, notably, Project
  Underground, National Conscience Party of Nigeria (NCP) California
  Chapter, 50 Years is Enough, Speak Out, Rain Forest Action Network, and
  University of California (UC) Berkeley student activists. 
  
          Especially effected by this resolution is Chevron Oil (one of
  the
  largest oil producers in Nigeria), which provides the City with
  gasoline, and (Chevron Oil) credit cards. It is estimated that as a
  result of this resolution, Chevron Oil, will lose millions of dollars
  worth of business at the Berkeley City level both through the immediate
  cancellation of the credit cards, and loss of revenue from oil sales.
  
          The FNM wishes to thank everyone involved in this endeavor, and
  to
  again request that all foreign companies involved in the Nigerian
  economy immediately divest all their shares and effect a total pull out
  from the country, till the democratically elected legitimate
  representatives of Nigeria have their mandates restored, and decide on
  the modalities for the return of foreign investment.
  
  
  Long live Freedom, Long live the Free Nigeria Movement, Long live the
  Federal Republic of Nigeria
  
  On behalf of the Free Nigeria Movement:
  Sincerely,                                                                      
  
  Nasiru Ikharo,
  National Information Secretary, FNM