The Lagos State Government will soon execute Chukwuemeka Ezeugo
popularly known as Rev. King as well as others on death row in Lagos
prisons.
State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Adeniji
Kazeem confirmed this to PM News at a ministerial press conference in
Lagos today, stating that the state government was reviewing the matter
with a view to taking a crucial decision very soon.
The
Supreme court had on 27 February 2016 upheld the judgment of the Appeal
Court which passed the penalty of death by hanging on Rev. King. Kazeem
disclosed that he visited the Lagos state prisons recently and
discovered that those on death row were acting as though they had
certain rights which excluded them from being executed. He revealed that
the prison officials complained about this attitude of theirs and
called on the Government to act and remedy the situation.
Kazeem
said the previous administration had not deemed it fit to sign documents
for the execution of convicts on death row but vowed that the Ambode
administration was moving towards necessary document to ensure those on
death row are executed.
“Lots of people are on death row, Rev.
King is not the only one on death row, it is on the instruction of
Ambode that I visited the prisons recently and I discuss the issue with
the prison officials and they expressed concern. We are moving in that
direction of signing. The prison officials said we need to look at that
seriously. Those on death row are beginning to think they have some
rights. We are going to move in that direction, you will hear from me,
but I will not tell you the exact date,” Kazeem said according to
reports from PM News.
On the issue of Major Hamzat Al-Mustapha, the
Chief Security Officer of General Sani Abacha accused of killing the
late Kudirat Abiola, Kazeem disclosed that the state government had
re-opened the case, saying that government was putting machinery in
motion to ensure that justice was done on the matter.
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