Welcome, everybody, to the third meeting of the House of Commons Subcommittee on International Human Rights. Pursuant to the order of reference of October 27, 2020, the subcommittee is meeting for a briefing on the current situation in Nigeria.
Today's meeting is taking place by video conference. To ensure an orderly meeting, I'd like to outline a few rules to follow.
Interpretation in this video conference will work very much like in a regular committee meeting. You have the choice at the bottom of your screen of either “floor”, “English” or “French”. Before speaking, please wait until I recognize you by name. When you are ready to speak, you can click on the microphone icon to activate your mike. I will remind you that all comments by members and witnesses should be addressed through the chair. When you are not speaking, your mike should be on “mute”.
I would now like to welcome our witnesses. As an individual, we have Obianuju Catherine Udeh, DJ Switch; from Amnesty International Nigeria, we have Osai Ojigho, the country director; and from Biafrans in Canada Community Association, we have Tim Okafor and Stella Kemdirim.
Welcome to all of you.
You will each have five minutes to make your deputations, and then it will be open to the members for questions. We'll hold to those five minutes, so we can have as much time as possible for questions from the members.
DJ Switch, you may commence.