Opinion: Death Row In Saudi Arabia: Why Government Should Intervene Urgently!, By Zainab Suleiman Okino
With the groundswell of evidence of conspiracy back home, I thought it should not be too difficult for the Nigeria government to consult its Saudi Arabian counterparts to fish out those guilty and release the innocent ones. No, our officials are probably still consulting and constituting a committee to look into the issue!
That much was revealed in the same report as the Nigerian consular-general in Saudi Arabia, Ambassador M.S. Yunusa’s missives to the minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, between December last year and February this year, pleading for intervention, which was never responded to until it became too late. Yet Nigeria has a robust diplomatic relation with Saudi Arabia.
These miscreants giving the country a bad name must be checkmated; we should invest in CCTVs and insist on luggage identification by passengers before boarding. Since the NDLEA and Kano Police Command have already started a good precedent by their investigation and arraignment of some of the criminals, the noose should be tightened on would be dare-devil criminals.
With the groundswell of evidence of conspiracy back home, I thought it should not be too difficult for the Nigeria government to consult its Saudi Arabian counterparts to fish out those guilty and release the innocent ones. No, our officials are probably still consulting and constituting a committee to look into the issue! Can you imagine the Saudi government doing this to citizens of America, U.K.
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