(NDIMA/IFEX) – Eighteen Kenyan writers, all members of the International Pen Kenya Chapter, have endorsed the Network for the Defence of Independent Media in Africa’s (NDIMA) proposal for an urgent meeting to discuss persecution of writers, human rights campaigners and repression of freedom of expression in Nigeria. The 18 writers are; Dr G. J Wanjohi, […]
(NDIMA/IFEX) – Eighteen Kenyan writers, all members of the
International Pen Kenya Chapter, have endorsed the Network for
the Defence of Independent Media in Africa’s (NDIMA) proposal for
an urgent meeting to discuss persecution of writers, human rights
campaigners and repression of freedom of expression in Nigeria.
The 18 writers are; Dr G. J Wanjohi, Fr. Muiruri Peter, Gakaara
wa Wanjau, Wakanyote N, Dr. Kimani Njogu, Dr. Njenga Njoroge,
Kimani Boro, Warui Kangachu, Stephen Munyiri, Nduati Maina,
Ndekei Kihumba, Munyiri Gituru, L. C. Mwema, Wilfred K. Wainaina,
Wambui Murima, Sam Mbure, Lynn M. Wanyeki and Wahome Mutahi.
Following the Commonwealth’s failure to take decisive punitive
action against the Nigerian regime at the Commonwealth Heads of
Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Edinburgh, Scotland in October and
in the face of unrelenting attacks on writers in that country,
NDIMA proposed an urgent meeting of human rights campaigners and
writers to deliberate a course of action against Sani Abacha’s
regime. Although no funding has been secured for the meeting the
writers felt that the venue should be South Africa because the
leadership in that country has shown deep concern about the
developments in Nigeria.
