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Amnesty International
press release
Amnesty International today wrote to the Nigerian government calling on them to provide Henry Okah and Edward Atatah immediate access to lawyers and their families.
Lagos — The verdict of the Elections Tribunal on Tuesday consolidating the electoral victory of President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua raised anxiety in the international petroleum export market over security of Nigerian oil supplies with pundits predicting that prices would remain well above $100 a barrel for days to come.
Abuja — POLICE yesterday said the arrested leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah, would soon be charged of his after investigation to the alleged crimes have been concluded.
Lagos — THE apexpan-Ijaw social cultural organization, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) and the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) say they will hold the Federal Government responsible should any harm befall the detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, (MEND), Henry Okah.
THE nation's economy lost $45.49 billion (about N5.3 trillion based on current exchange rate of N117) in the last three years - 2005, 2006 and 2007 - to shut-in crude oil production in the troubled Niger-Delta.
The shut-in was occasioned by the activities of militants. The amount lost is in excess of what is actually required to provide infrastructure in the area.
Lagos — Respite yesterday came the way of Henry Okah, the detained leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) when a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered the federal government to give his family and lawyers access to him in detention.
Leadership (Abuja)
Abuja — An Abuja High Court yesterday ordered that detained leaders of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), Henry Okah and Edward Atatah, should be given access to their lawyers, doctors and families.
Abuja — The detained leaders of a Niger Delta militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Mr Henry Okah and Edward Atatah have filed a suit challenging their detention at an Abuja Federal High Court.
Leadership (Abuja)
Niger Delta — Government yesterday declared that the leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), John Okah, is being interrogated for eight alleged crimes, including murder, gun running, secession and armed robbery, and was at no time killed.
Leadership (Abuja)
Niger Delta — Detained Nigerian oil delta rebel leader Henry Okah is alive, a spokesperson for Nigeria's president said on Tuesday, dismissing an earlier report from his armed group that he had been shot dead.