The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Abuja has maintained that all legal and judicial procedures were followed before the recent execution
The Federal Government of Nigeria through the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Diaspora, Abike Dabiri-Erewa, had on Tuesday faulted the execution of the Nigerian woman.
But the embassy, in a statement in Abuja, said that the execution was carried out after all proofs and legal evidence has been exhausted.The Nigerian woman, it said, was accorded every legal right before the death sentence was carried out on her. “All convicted persons on whom the death penalty has been carried out in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have gone through trials characterized by legal guarantee of justice to their case because the Kingdom’s judicial system is established on objectivity and is dependent, in terms of its rules and regulations, on the Islamic Law, which has always restored rights to their owners and done justice to the victims. This is what the Kingdom has always affirmed.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is always in consultation with foreign embassies and consulates in the Kingdom, of which are the Nigerian Embassy in Riyadh and Consulate General in Jeddah, and it provides them with all facilitations and information and allows their staff to visit their nationals that are detained vis-à-vis a variety of charges as are related to the different stages of their detention and prosecution, and this is allowed every time of their...
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