81 more Nigerians in Malaysia and 15 in Indonesia are
awaiting execution after they had been convicted on drug related
offences in the two countries just as one Chijioke Stephen Obioha was
executed in Singapore yesterday.
Drug offences in those countries carry the death penalty.
It
was reliably learnt from sources in the Malaysian Embassy that the
Malaysia government had repeatedly complained to the Drug Law
Enforcement Agency of Nigeria of what had become almost an epidemic
proportion of Nigerians who traffic in the deadly cargo but all appear
to have fallen on deaf ears as the number of arrests had been on a
steady increase.
Last
week, Indonesia executed another Nigerian without fanfare as was
contained in notes exchanged when Nigeria’s drug law agency officials
visited Indonesia recently.
Obioha’s
execution was inspite of global cries and appeals which followed the
failure of his appeal to their apex court after conviction. The apex
court threw out his final appeal.
Malaysia
complained that the new tactics that the Nigerians were using to
traffic and vend hard drugs was through chat groups on social media.
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