Call Nigerian Ambassador to Indonesia Convicted Drug Related Execution

 

The Nigerian government has summoned the Ambassador of Indonesia in relation to the execution of two of its citizens by firing squad for drug smuggling. Such as Brazil and the Netherlands, each one of its citizens were executed, Nigeria also protested.  

The Indonesian government executed six people at the end of last week, including one Indonesian. Five other people are from Nigeria (two people), Malawi, Vietnam, the Netherlands, and Brazil. The government has previously stated, two Nigerians, including the executable and the Government of Nigeria also said the same thing. However, the government in Jakarta later said only one Nigerian who was shot dead.

 "The Federal Government has received with great disappointment tragic news about the execution of two Nigerians by firing squad," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Ogbole Amedu Ode in a written statement on Monday (19/01/2015). He called the name of the man. "Executions were carried out despite constant requests to provide forgiveness ... the Federal Government to take this opportunity to express sympathy and sorrow to the families of the deceased.

" Brazil and the Netherlands interesting ambassadors magnitude, Sunday (01/18/2015), to protest the planned executions are. The two countries do not impose the death penalty and both have voiced opposition to the practice. Nigeria, which summoned representatives of Indonesia, Sunday, the death penalty, but usually for offenses more serious than drug smuggling. 

 According to the pages of the Death Penalty Worldwide managed Cornell University Law School, there were 1,233 people on death row in Nigeria in September 2013. At least 141 executions were carried out in Nigeria that year. Last month, a military court sentenced 54 Nigerian soldiers sentenced to death by a shot because of rebellion. In the northern part of Nigeria which is predominantly Muslim, some states since the beginning of the new millennium has been practicing Islamic law, which theoretically allows stoning to death, although no one has ever run the sentence.