The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Khadijah Bukar
Abba Ibrahim has pleaded with the Indonesian government to repatriate Nigerian
prisoners who are serving jail terms for various offences in the country.
The minister made the appeal while receiving the
Indonesian ambassador to Nigeria, Harry Purwanto, in her office on a courtesy
visit.
Indonesia has some of the toughest drug laws in the world
and ended a five-year moratorium on executions in 2013.
On April 29, 2015, an Indonesian firing squad executed
four Nigerian drug traffickers, along with two Australians, a Brazilian and an
Indonesian.
The execution toughened the hard line on enforcing the
death penalty adopted by Indonesian President Joko Widodo as part of his war on
drugs, an approach criticised by the United Nations.
The minister stated that it is necessary that Nigerian
prisoners in Indonesia be repatriated back to the country “to come home and
have justice.”
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