The award-winning investigative series returns, in which Mike Thomson takes a document as a starting-point to shed new light on past events.
Rigging Nigeria
Monday听30 July 听2007
Mike Thomson investigates claims that British colonial officials helped rig Nigeria鈥檚 pre-independence elections to ensure that a pro-UK party won.
The allegations centre on the cold war days of 1960 when fears were growing that communism was gaining ground in Nigeria, 听a country where oil had only recently been discovered. Two top secret files from the time are being kept closed for one hundred years.
Documents calls for them to be released on the FOI Act. Could it be that Britain taught Nigeria all it knows today about fixing the polls?
