rendezvous

Akinbode Oluwafemi, Environmental Rights Action's Manager In Lagos, Nigeria

Rendez-vous 166 - May 7, 2007
Thank you Bode for taking the time to answer my questions. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Akinbode Oluwafemi: My name is Akinbode Oluwafemi. I am the Programme Manager of Environmental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria, Nigeria's foremost environmental campaign group. For over seven years, I have been involved in tobacco control activities both at the national and international levels.

Q1. I just read about ERA filing a lawsuit with the Lagos State government against BAT, Philip Morris International and the Tobacco Institute for "negligence, public nuisance, liability, conspiracy to commit actionable wrongs" and asking for $21 billion in compensation.

Phillip Karugaba

Rendez-vous 145
December 6, 2002

This rendez-vous took place during the 2002 national tobacco control conference in San Francisco. I want to thank the press service of the conference and the San Francisco Tobacco Free project that made it possible.

Phillip Karugaba is Spokeperson for TEAN, The Environmental Action Network
Kampala, Uganda

Thank you Phillip for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Phillip Karugaba: I am the spokeperson for TEAN, The Environmental Action Network, a public interest group that was created in 2000 in Kampala. I am an attorney with an independent practice and a law professor at Makerere University in Kampala.

Mike Moore

Rendez-vous 144 - November 29, 2002

This rendez-vous took place during the 2002 national tobacco control conference in San Francisco. I want to thank the press service of the conference that made it possible.

Mike Moore is Attorney General for the state of Mississipi
Jackson, Mississipi

Thank you Mike for accepting our rendez-vous. May I ask you to introduce yourself?

Mike Moore: I have spent 25 years in the public service, 15 years as Attorney General for the state of Mississipi. I was always concerned with the problems related with alcool and illegal drugs. When I came to realize tobacco was the number one cause of death in our country I felt compelled to do something about it and I still do.