Opinion ID: 624707
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Motion to Reopen to Consider Nigerian Arrest Warrant

Text: In December 2009, Oyeniran moved to re-open the proceedings to submit new evidence that the Supreme Magistrate's Court of Nigeria in Lagos issued a warrant of arrest against him. Dated May 28, 2008, it charged that Oyeniran had engaged yourself and others at large in inciting and riotously challenging the spreading and propagation of Sharia laws and traditions. Oyeniran stated that he did not have the evidence at the time of the original hearings and could not have discovered the warrant any earlier. He submitted a sworn affidavit stating that he had called Nigeria on October 2, 2009 to talk to his father at the church office. His father's secretary answered the phone and told Oyeniran about the warrant. In February 2010, the BIA decided that the date of the warrant (May 2008) showed the evidence was available and could have been presented at the hearings. The BIA held that, in any event, the evidence would not change the result.