21 Nigerians Among 121 Death Row Inmates In Indonesia

Twenty-one Nigerians are among the 121
prisoners on death row in Indonesia.
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Thirty of the prisoners will be executed
before the end of 2017. Eighteen of them
will be executed after July 6, the Eid el-
Fitr Muslim holiday, which ends the holy
month of Ramadan.
Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Senior Special
Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora
to President Muhammadu Buhari,
disclosed this to Independent on
Monday.Bambang Waluyo, Indonesian
Deputy Attorney General, announced the
execution schedule during a parliamentary
hearing in Jakarta. The Justice Ministry
said those on death row in Indonesia are
mostly convicted of drug-related crimes
and that at least 35 of them are
foreigners.
In 2015, Indonesia had equally executed 14
convicts, all but two of them foreigners, in
a move that drew international
condemnation. Dabiri-Erewa noted that one
Nigerian was executed in the last batch of
execution. Under Indonesian law, each
convict would face a squad of 10 gunmen.
Dabiri-Erewa, who was chairman, House of
Representatives' Committee on Diaspora
before her present appointment, noted that
when a Nigerian delegation visited
Indonesia in 2010 to plead for Nigerians on
death row, that the Indonesian government
made it clear that the death penalty is the
law.
"As the world keeps appealing to
Indonesia not to kill them, we must also
admonish our citizens to avoid crime and
be good ambassadors wherever they find
themselves", she said.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo, who
took office in 2014, has taken a tough
stance against drug trafficking, saying that
the country is facing a drug emergency.