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Nigeria; Nazi Germany of the 90s
- Ibrahim H. Muhammed
For Immediate Release
(Please distribute widely)
Tuesday, September 30, 1997
The County of Alameda, in the State of California, U.S.A, today (September, 30, 1997) adopted a binding resolution prohibiting the County from contracting with or purchasing from those who do business in or with Nigeria. This followed the recommendation of the September 22nd , 1997 meeting of the County's Personel/Administration/Legislation Committee, which recommended inter alia that the County should adopt a selective purchasing/divestment 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 Alameda County Board of Supervisors', and coordinated thereafter by the Free Nigeria Movement (FNM), an effort which led the Board of Supervisors' President, Mr. Keith Carson to thank the President of the Free Nigeria Movement, Mr. Tunde Okorodudu for the continued efforts of the Free Nigeria Movement to bring the plight of Nigeria before a global audience.
Economically, this is the most important action taken against the military regime of Sanni Abacha and the Nigerian military in the country's 37 years of flag independence. Unconfirmed estimates value the direct economic impact of the Alameda sanctions on business interests which are in, or do business with Nigeria somewhere in the range of US$200 million and above in lost revenue.
Especially effected by this resolution are Coca-Cola,
Chevron Oil, Shell Oil and Motorola, all of which are major beneficiaries
of the County's US$ 1.25 billion annual budget.
The County of Alameda has under its jurisdiction
the cities of Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Dublin, Emeryville, Fremont, Hayward,
Livermore, Newark, Oakland, Piedmont, Pleasanton, San Leandro and Union
City.
The Alameda County ordinance is the first of its kind at the county level, although the towns of Amherst and Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts, as well the cities of Oakland and Berkeley in the State of California have passed similar resolutions. Tomorrow, October 1st, 1997, Free Nigeria Movement activists are scheduled to present a similar ordinance before the Austin City Council, in the State of Texas..
The FNM wishes to thank everyone
involved in this endeavor, and to again request that all foreign businesses
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 investments and investors.
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