The Federal Government has censured the execution of four Nigerians by the Indonesian powers over medication related offenses, in spite of requests for pardon by President Goodluck Jonathan.
The administration, while sympathizing with the groups of the perished, requested the repatriation of the cadavers of the executed Nigerians.
It clarified that they would be given good entombments by their different groups.
A concise explanation on Wednesday from the Public Communications Division of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja, gave the names of the executed Nigerians as Martin Anderson, Okwudili Oyatanze, Jaminu Abashin and Sylvester Obiekwe.
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The administration cautioned Nigerians to halt from medication trafficking and different offenses.
The announcement read to some extent, "The Federal Government of Nigeria has gotten with profound dissatisfaction, news of the execution of four Nigerians ─ Martin Anderson, Okwudili Oyatanze, Jaminu Abashin and Sylvester Obiekwe ─ by the legislature of Indonesia for medication related offenses.
"These executions have occurred regardless of vivacious supplications for mercy made at the most elevated amount by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, and all the more as of late by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali.
"The Federal Government wishes to express its sympathies to the groups of the perished.
"It has approached the Indonesian government for the repatriation of the remaining parts of the executed persons so they can be concurred conventional entombments by their different groups.
"Moreover, government is resolved to draw in the legislature of Indonesia and other well disposed nations in regards to the finish of Prisoner Transfer Agreements and other respective method for defending the interest and welfare of Nigerians."
The convicts were allegedly taken to the Nusakambangan Island where they were executed by terminating squad on Tuesday.
… Indonesia guards executions
Indonesia on Wednesday staunchly guarded its execution of seven outsiders including two Australians as a crucial front of its "war" on medications as affirmation rose of how they went singing to their passings, The Times of India reports.
Australia withdrew its envoy in dissent at the midnight executions, yet Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, said he was only applying "the principle of law" against opiates traffickers.
The seven convicts – two from Australia, one from Brazil and four from Africa – were shot by shooting squad alongside one Indonesian, in spite of strident remote bids and requests from relatives.
Brazil communicated "profound misgiving" at the execution of its national, who is rationally sick as per his family, and said it was measuring its next move.
The censured men apparently every declined blindfold and sang songs, among them "Astounding Grace", as they went to face the terminating squad in a wilderness clearing, as per a minister who was with them.
As the clock ticked down to midnight, a gathering of weepy supporters likewise sang psalms, grasped and held candles overhead amid a vigil at the port in Cilacap, the entryway to the jail island of Nusakambangan.
After the executions, relatives could be seen crying as they were introduced by companions and supporters, an AFP columnist saw.
A Filipina initially set to be executed was given a 11th hour relief after a lady who purportedly tricked her into shipping medications to Indonesia approached to police in the Philippines.
The respite for Mary Jane Veloso was hailed in the Philippines as a supernatural occurrence and a blessing from God, yet Indonesian Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo focused on it was just a "deferment" to permit time for police exa
The administration, while sympathizing with the groups of the perished, requested the repatriation of the cadavers of the executed Nigerians.
It clarified that they would be given good entombments by their different groups.
A concise explanation on Wednesday from the Public Communications Division of Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Abuja, gave the names of the executed Nigerians as Martin Anderson, Okwudili Oyatanze, Jaminu Abashin and Sylvester Obiekwe.
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The administration cautioned Nigerians to halt from medication trafficking and different offenses.
The announcement read to some extent, "The Federal Government of Nigeria has gotten with profound dissatisfaction, news of the execution of four Nigerians ─ Martin Anderson, Okwudili Oyatanze, Jaminu Abashin and Sylvester Obiekwe ─ by the legislature of Indonesia for medication related offenses.
"These executions have occurred regardless of vivacious supplications for mercy made at the most elevated amount by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, and all the more as of late by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali.
"The Federal Government wishes to express its sympathies to the groups of the perished.
"It has approached the Indonesian government for the repatriation of the remaining parts of the executed persons so they can be concurred conventional entombments by their different groups.
"Moreover, government is resolved to draw in the legislature of Indonesia and other well disposed nations in regards to the finish of Prisoner Transfer Agreements and other respective method for defending the interest and welfare of Nigerians."
The convicts were allegedly taken to the Nusakambangan Island where they were executed by terminating squad on Tuesday.
… Indonesia guards executions
Indonesia on Wednesday staunchly guarded its execution of seven outsiders including two Australians as a crucial front of its "war" on medications as affirmation rose of how they went singing to their passings, The Times of India reports.
Australia withdrew its envoy in dissent at the midnight executions, yet Indonesian President, Joko Widodo, said he was only applying "the principle of law" against opiates traffickers.
The seven convicts – two from Australia, one from Brazil and four from Africa – were shot by shooting squad alongside one Indonesian, in spite of strident remote bids and requests from relatives.
Brazil communicated "profound misgiving" at the execution of its national, who is rationally sick as per his family, and said it was measuring its next move.
The censured men apparently every declined blindfold and sang songs, among them "Astounding Grace", as they went to face the terminating squad in a wilderness clearing, as per a minister who was with them.
As the clock ticked down to midnight, a gathering of weepy supporters likewise sang psalms, grasped and held candles overhead amid a vigil at the port in Cilacap, the entryway to the jail island of Nusakambangan.
After the executions, relatives could be seen crying as they were introduced by companions and supporters, an AFP columnist saw.
A Filipina initially set to be executed was given a 11th hour relief after a lady who purportedly tricked her into shipping medications to Indonesia approached to police in the Philippines.
The respite for Mary Jane Veloso was hailed in the Philippines as a supernatural occurrence and a blessing from God, yet Indonesian Attorney General Muhammad Prasetyo focused on it was just a "deferment" to permit time for police exa
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