Indonesia is set to execute 6
Nigerians among the 14 prison inmates (four Indonesians and 10 foreign
nationals) expected to face the firing squad this weekend in Indonesia. Here
are the names of Nigerians likely to face execution and the crimes they committed
below...
Humphrey Jefferson Ejike
Eleweke
Jefferson, then a restaurant
owner, was arrested in 2003 after police found 1.7kg of heroin in a room used
by one of his employees. He was sentenced to death in 2004 and has until now
declined to ask for presidential clemency as it would entail seeking
forgiveness for a crime of which he says he is innocent. His lawyers say there
is evidence that he was framed.
Michael Titus Igweh
Titus was found guilty of
possessing 5.8kg of heroin in 2002. At the time he was 23 years old. He was
sentenced to death the following year. He claims he was subject to beatings and
torture in detention, this May telling the district court in Tangerang during
his appeal that his genitals were repeatedly electrocuted to elicit a confession
under duress.
Okonkwo Nonso Kingsley
Arrested at Polonia airport, in
Medan, in 2003, Kingsley was caught with 1.1kg of heroin and sentenced to death
in May 2004. The heroin was stored in dozens of capsules that Kingsley had
swallowed, found after customs apparently noticed the odd shape of his stomach.
The supreme court rejected a judicial review filed by Kingsley in November
2014.
Ozias Sibanda
Sibanda was reportedly arrested
with three other nationals from Nigeria at Soekarno Hatta airport in 2001. Like
Okonkwo Nonso Kingsley (see above), Sibanda had arrived on a flight from
Pakistan and had swallowed capsules of heroin. Sibanda was initially identified
as a Zimbabwean national, as he was travelling on a forged passport.
Obina Nwajagu
Nwajagu was reportedly
sentenced to death after he was caught at an Ibis hotel trying to buy 45
capsules of heroin from a Thai national. He has been held at Nusa Kambangan
prison in Central Java since 2003. Nwajagu’s appeal for clemency has been
rejected by the Indonesian president, Joko Widodo.
Eugene Ape
Ape was arrested in 2003 and
sentenced to death after 300g of heroin was found among clothes in a bag that
he owned. Prosecutors at the South Jakarta district court initially called for
a sentence of 12 years before he was handed the death penalty.
source: newsexpress
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