Nigeria Criticizes U.S. Proposed Reward for Taylor as Encourage Violation of Nigerian Sovereignty

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Thursday, January 1, 2004

Author:

Bruce Zagaris

Volume:

20

Issue:

1

Abstract:

On November 8, 2003, Nigerian presidential spokeswoman Oluremi Oyo expressed concern about news of a proposed U.S. offer setting a $2 million reward ?for an indictee of the Special Court for Sierra Leone?, stating that any effort to seize former Liberian president Charles Taylor on Nigerian territory would violate its territorial integrity. In August 2003, Mr. Taylor resigned as President of Liberia and went into exile in Nigeria after the Special Court for Sierra Leone indicted him and as part of a cease fire to the Liberian civil war...[more]