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  • provincialfoot

  at 4:53 PM on July 19, 2008

  Nigeria Issues Arrest Warrants for Top Pfizer Officials After Drug Experiments Conducted on Children
  
  Friday, July 18, 2008 by: David Gutierrez
  
  
  (NaturalNews) A Nigerian state judge has issued arrest warrants for three top Pfizer officials, saying that they failed to appear in court to face charges of illegally conducting drug trials that led to the deaths of 11 children.
  
  
  Judge Shehu Atiku, sitting in the city of Kano, said that Nigerian Pfizer head Ngozi Edozien and senior company officials Lare Baale and Segun Donguro failed to appear in court in compliance with a Nov. 6 court order.
  
  
  The state of Kano is seeking $2.6 billion from Pfizer, charging that the company illegally tested an experimental antibiotic, Trovan, on children in Kano during a meningitis outbreak in 1996. According to the government, the drug trials were carried out without the informed consent of the children's parents or the Nigerian government, and led to the deaths of 11 children. Dozens of other children were allegedly harmed by the drug.
  
  
  Pfizer insists that the trial was legal, and that the drug saved people's lives.
  
  
  In addition to the criminal and civil suits initiated by the state of Kano, the federal government has also filed suit and charges against the corporation. The Nigerian government seeks $7 billion in damages.
  
  
  United States-based Pfizer said that it would fight the arrest warrants and seek to block their implementation.
  
  
  This follows Pfizer's attempts in November to avoid federal prosecution by securing an injunction to prevent police from arraigning any company officials on federal charges.
  
  
  "What Pfizer has done is what a former governor did to stop EFCC from prosecuting them," said government lawyer Babatunde Irukera. "They went to Lagos state, where there is no action pending, to procure an exparte order to stop the police from taking steps to serve criminal summons on its officials."
  
  
  That federal case has been adjourned until January 28, to give prosecutors time to convince the court in Lagos to withdraw the injunction and allow Pfizer officials to be arrested.
  
  
  
  http://www.naturalnews.com/023654.html
  

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  Submitted by

  • tericared

  at 4:59 PM on July 19, 2008

  This is just awful.

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  Submitted by

  • deanna80465

  at 5:06 PM on July 19, 2008

  bump

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  Submitted by

  • Friday

  at 6:49 PM on July 19, 2008

  Horrible, wish I could be surprised.

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  Submitted by

  • amjaysmom

  at 2:03 AM on July 20, 2008

  This is just so sad. I wish I could say I can't believe it.

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  Submitted by

  • truthrowan

  at 3:58 AM on July 20, 2008

  Sickening that this corporation think it's okay to test medications that are potentially, and now provenly, deadly on children just because they are in underdeveloped or poorer nations. Despicable. I hope they all are arrested.

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  Submitted by

  • Charma7

  at 9:39 AM on July 20, 2008

  It is sad I have to bring my daughter up in a world like today. This is just awful. The real sad part is there are people who do this every day and don't get charged for a damn thing.

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  Submitted by

  • Friday

  at 12:06 PM on July 20, 2008

  I'm surprised none of the pro-lifers care about this. I guess it's all the the name of capitalism so it's cool. Besides, it's not like they are unborn babies or American kids.

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  Submitted by

  • tericared

  at 3:25 PM on July 20, 2008

  Submitted by Friday
  at 12:06 PM on July 20, 2008
  I'm surprised none of the pro-lifers care about this. I guess it's all the the name of capitalism so it's cool. Besides, it's not like they are unborn babies or American kids

  If their Pastor told them about this they would be all over it, no offence to my Christians friends. Only being real here.

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  • amjaysmom

  at 5:54 PM on July 20, 2008

  BUMP

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