Such official conspiracy against the weak and vulnerable by the political society underpins the hypocrisy of the death penalty debate in this country.
Ogbeni Raul Aregbesola was Governor of Osun State for 8 years. He didn’t sign a single death warrant despite over 100 death row prisoners from Osun State. But last week, as a Minister of Interior, he called on Governors to sign death warrants as a way of decongesting prisons. Such official insincerity, not uncommon among the political society, underpins the fallacy of the death penalty debate in this country.
There is no doubt that the death penalty is in our statute books because the poor and vulnerable are the usual victims. Massive corruption and financial frauds by the political elites and private sector businessmen, most of them resulting in the silent death of millions of Nigerians, are exempted from death penalty. Funding terrorism is also exempted from the death penalty under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
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