Legal counselor: Nigeria extradites American, 2 Nigerians to Cameroon

Legal counselor to Cameroonian separatists asserted on Tuesday that Nigeria could have made a few mistakes in ousting two naturalized Nigerians and an American to Cameroon a weekend ago.

The trio were among the 47 Cameroonian separatists extradited to Cameroon on Friday, said Abdul Oroh, a human rights lobbyist and previous individual from the House of Representatives.

The Nigerians are subjects by naturalization, he said. They are Dr. Ojong Okongho, a specialist and Mrs. Nalowa Bih, a legal counselor, as indicated by a letter by Oroh on Tuesday to United States Embassy, the British High Commission, United Nations Human Rights Council and others.

The American repatriated is Professor Awasum Augustine, an instructor at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria.

The pioneer of the separatists in Nigeria, Sisuku Ayuk Tabe, who was likewise extradited alongside 46 others on Friday educates at the American University of Nigeria in Yola.

Three others Dr Nfor Ngala Nfor, executive of Southern Cameroon Council, Mr. Tussang Wolfred, an educator and Barrister Shufai Blaise Berinyu, have officially connected for political refuge in Nigeria.

Dr. Fidelis Nde Che, who was likewise packaged to Yaounde with them educates at American University, while Dr. Henry Kimeng instructs at Ahmadu Bello University. Dr. Cornelius Kwanga iand Dr. Ogork Ntui are instructors at Umar Musa Yar'adua University in Katsina, while Barrister Eyambe Elias is an evacuee in Nigeria.

Abdul Oroh, who was additionally magistrate in Edo State, under previous senator Adams Oshiomhole, said 39 different evacuees were captured in Jalingo, Taraba state, by the Police and all were extradited, alongside the pioneers, who were captured in Abuja by the Brigade of Guards on 5 January.

The last were kept for half a month by the Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA, he said.

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Oroh portrayed the extradited Cameroonians as political activists and individuals from the Southern Cameroon National Council, "a body focused on averting genocide and the abuse of the general population of Southern Cameroon".

"Our customers entered Nigeria lawfully through affirmed purposes of section and have not perpetrated any wrongdoing to warrant their capture and expelling to Cameroon in rupture of International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law bought in to by the Nigerian Government", Oroh said in the letter.

Oroh said the displaced people were escaping from "persecution and conceivable genocide from the Cameroonian military and paramilitary powers as coordinated by the Government of President Paul Biya."

He said the motivation behind their gathering in Abuja was to brief the Nigerian experts about the circumstance in Southern Cameroon, request the help of the Nigerian Government in gently settling the issue and to sharpen the Nigerian individuals who have nimbly facilitated the outcasts in the soul of African fellowship and as great neighbors.

Oroh advanced for critical conciliatory mediation `'to keep the fast approaching indictment and execution of the political detainees as they can't be ensured free and reasonable trial by the Cameroonian specialists.

`' We likewise claim that the detainees be discharged forthwith to the UN High Commission for the Refugees in consistence with International Humanitarian Law. Accepting without surrendering, that they were engaged with outfitted clash, they ought to be dealt with as hors de battle, ensured altruistic treatment and managed all the legal assurances including assumption of purity, which are viewed as basic by socialized people groups".

In legitimizing the expulsion of the Cameroonian renegades, the Nigerian specialists seemed, by all accounts, to be depending on an International warrant issued for the capture of Ayuk Tabe and others in November 2017, as the emergency in Anglophone Cameroon intensified.

Up until now, there has been no official word from the Nigerian specialists, either about the capture or the extradition of the 47 Cameroonians. The main authority affirmation originated from Cameroon itself, where Minister of Communications, Issa Tchiroma Bakary said the "47 psychological militants among them Mr. Ayuk Tabe has for a few hours being in the hands of Cameroonian equity before which they will respond in due order regarding their violations".

The expelling of the Cameroonians had a priority in 2006, when the Obasanjo organization, permitted previous Liberian pioneer, Charles Taylor, who was on refuge in Nigeria, to be abducted and after that dispatched to Monrovia and later the International Court of Justice to confront trial for atrocities.