The petitioners, ten in number, are registered refugees in Nigeria, who also called on the Federal Government under President Bola Tinubu, to deploy other means to secure their release from detention by the Cameroonian authorities.
The professors and professionals were arrested at Nera Hotel in Abuja on January 5, 2018, by security agents and later repatriated to Cameroon, tried by a military tribunal and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Kondengui Maximum security detention facility.
He said: “What we are asking the parliament to do, we realise that these people were not detained under the administration of Bola Tinubu who is a human rights person. “Now, there is hope renewed, so we want that hope that is renewed to engage our neighbours, to touch the lives of our neighbours, especially these my clients. We want him to intervene with the Cameronian authorities to release them.
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