Presidential Pardon: ASF France lauds Tinubu, says 3,500 currently on death row

By Ikechukwu Nnochiri

ABUJA–The Avocats Sans Frontières, ASF, France, different known arsenic Lawyers Without Borders, has commended President Bola Tinubu for commuting the condemnation of 7 inmates that were antecedently connected decease row, to beingness imprisonment.

This group, done its Country Director, Ms. Angela Uwandu Uzoma-Iwuchukwu, disclosed that a 2025 study from the Nigerian Correctional Service, showed that implicit 3,500 inmates successful the state are presently facing superior punishment, accounting for 1 of the largest decease enactment populations successful Sub Saharan Africa.

“According to caller statistics, 26 African countries person abolished the decease penalty, 14 countries inactive clasp the decease penalty, and 15 are classified arsenic de facto abolitionists.

“This is simply a wide denotation that the continent is progressively moving toward the planetary inclination of ending this irreversible signifier of

punishment.

“These figures item the urgency of sustained advocacy and betterment toward the

abolition of the decease punishment successful Nigeria.

“However, we commend the caller determination by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who commuted 7 radical who were connected decease enactment to beingness imprisonment.

“This is an encouraging measurement that reflects the increasing designation for a much humane justness system,” the radical stated arsenic it marked the 2025 World Day Against the Death Penalty.

Ms. Uzoma-Iwuchukwu said the solemnisation served arsenic a reminder that justness indispensable ne'er travel astatine the outgo of quality life.

“It is simply a telephone to empathy, reflection, and action. ASF France reaffirms its committedness by providing ineligible assistance and enactment to radical facing the decease punishment done its web of pro bono lawyers.

“So far, we person supported implicit 800 individuals facing the decease punishment crossed 10 states successful Nigeria, ensuring they person capable ineligible representation, fair

and humane attraction nether the law.

“ASF France stands with each those astir the satellite who judge that each beingness has worth and that dignity, not death, should beryllium astatine the bosom of justice. We telephone for a humane justness strategy for all,” she added.

In her speech, the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Nigeria,

Annett Günther, expressed her country’s unwavering committedness towards ending the decease punishment crossed the globe. 

“We deliberation that the decease punishment is not lone a ineligible matter, but it touches connected halfway values of justice, quality dignity and the close to life.

“The irreversible quality of the decease punishment means that mistakes and wrongful convictions are beyond correction.

“Germany abolished the decease punishment much than 70 years ago, and we proceed to advocator globally for its implicit eradication,” she added.

Likewise, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Australian High Commission, Mr. Neil Sanderson, said his state was besides opposes to the decease penalty.

“It is simply a cruel, inhumane, and ineffective punishment that undermines quality dignity and justice. Encouragingly, planetary momentum is growing, and we invited Nigeria’s information of abolition arsenic portion of its law betterment process.”

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