5 Exiles Return to Deliver Demands
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Five leading Nigerian political exiles have returned to Nigeria’s commercial capital, Lagos, from Britain to demand checks on police power and an inquiry into late dictator Gen. Sani Abacha’s fortune, a newspaper reported. However, Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, Nigeria’s most influential and best-known exile, was not among the returnees. Many believe that Soyinka will return soon. A growing number of government opponents who had been in self-imposed exile have been returning to Nigeria since the June death of Abacha.
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