Heart Breaking; Nigerian Citizen to be executed in Singapore

Drug trafficking is major crime that the whole countries are fighting against and some countries have designed their law in a such a way that crime like drug trafficking calls for a capital punishment.

Nigerians have a bad reputation especially outside the country mainly because of drug trafficking and some of Nigerian citizens are culprits to these particular crime.

according to Special Assistant on Media, Abdur-Rahman Balogun in Abuja said that the planned execution was heartbreaking despite repeated warnings to Nigerians to obey the laws of the land of their host countries.

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa Dabiri-Erewa reiterated her appeal to Nigerians to avoid drug peddling in their host countries as laws of countries, whether acceptable or not, will be difficult to influence.

“While we regret the death sentence passed on the Nigerian, we once again appeal to Nigerians to avoid crimes like drug trafficking with most countries especially in Asia declaring zero tolerance for drug trafficking,” Dabiri-Erewa stated.

One Nigerian Chijioke Stephen Obioha possibly an Igbo man was arrested with more than 2.6 kilograms of cannabis, surpassing the statutory amount of 500 grams presumed as drug trafficking in Singapore on April 9, 2007.

Some people have also described this judgement for execution to be against international law.

 

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