Peter Obi Condemns Fashola's "Callous Act" Of Deportation

Anambra State Governor Peter Obi Writes President Goodluck Jonathan On What He Calls The "Callous Act" Of Deportation Of Other Nigerians From Lagos State By Governor Babatunde Fashola 

                                                                                                                               

(L-R) Gov Babatunde Fashola, Dr. Tunji Braithwaite, 

Gov Peter Obi And Mrs. Obi At The Funeral Rites 

For Late Odumegwu Ojukwu  At Tafawa Balewa

 Square, Lagos, February, 2012.

(Pix: The Guardian)  

“Unconstitutional, Illegal And Forced Deportation of Nigerians to Anambra State From Lagos State”

I wish to respectfully bring to your due attention a very disturbing development that has vast national security and political implications.  Last September and again on 24 July 2013, the Lagos State Government contrived inexplicable reasons to round up Nigerians, whom they alleged were Anambra indigenes (most of whom the SSS report shows clearly are not fromAnambra state) and forcefully deported them to Anambra state, dumping them as it were in the commercial city of Onitsha (see attached SSS report).  

This latest callous act, in which Lagos State did not even bother to consult with Anambra State authorities, before deporting 72 persons considered to be of Igbo extraction to Anambra State, is illegal, unconstitutional and a blatant violation of the human rights of these individuals and of the Nigerian Constitution.