The Indonesian authority has rejected a request by the
Nigerian Government over the proposed death penalty for Nigerian drug
trafficker, among others.
Nigeria’s Government had spoken through the Indonesian
Ambasador to Nigeria, Harry Purwato, requesting the conversion of capital
punishment against drug trafficker Raheem Agbaje-Salami to be converted to life
imprisonment.
Responding however on Monday, Judge Hendro Puspito of the
Administrative Court in East Jakarta said the court had no jurisdiction over
presidential decisions.
Agbaje-Salami, alias Jamiu Owolabi Abashin from the southern
Spanish city of Cordova, was arrested in 1998 for smuggling 5.3 kg of heroin
into Surabaya, the capital of East Java province.
He was taken on Wednesday from a prison in East Java to a
prison island off the southern coast of Java where he was due to be executed
later this month with up to nine otherdrug traffickers from Australia, French,
Brazil, Ghana and Indonesia.
President Widodo remained tough on the death penalty amid
intensive efforts for clemency from Australia, French and Brazil.
Two other Nigerian drug traffickers are also scheduled to be
executed this month after requests for presidential clemency were rejected.
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