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| Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by LMAyedun(m): 3:27pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
Here are the photos and profiles of the 4 Nigerians who are to be executed in Indonesia for drug trafficking. Martin Anderson: 50 year old Martin Anderson (above) was arrested in Jakarta in 2003 on a charge of possessing about 1.8 ounces of heroin and was accused of being part of a local drug ring. He had traveled to Indonesia on a fake Ghanaian passport and has been incorrectly identified as Ghanaian. He was sentenced to death in 2004. According to his lawyer, Kusmanto, who like many Indonesians uses one name, Mr. Anderson was shot in the leg during his arrest — a method the Indonesian police are sometimes known to use when apprehending a suspect — and remains bothered by the wound to this day. He has been in poor spirits since being transferred to Nusakambangan Island for execution, Mr. Kusmanto said. Mr. Anderson has filed for a judicial review of his conviction and death sentence with the Supreme Court, but his lawyer said he feared the court would not consider the appeal until after he is executed. Such appeals can take six months to be heard, Mr. Kusmanto said. “Obviously we hope it’s sooner.” 3 Likes 4 Shares
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| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by LMAyedun(m): 3:28pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise, 47, Nigeria - Smuggling Heroin Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise’s story, as his wife tells it, is similar to those of other Nigerians on Indonesia’s death row for drug trafficking. Unemployed in Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, he was lured to Pakistan by fellow Nigerians on the promise of a job with good wages. But once in Pakistan, instead of a job, he got an offer to swallow some capsules – filled with goat horn powder, his wife, Fatimah Farwin, says he was told – and fly to Indonesia. “They said they didn’t want to pay tax on it,” Ms. Fatimah said. “When he arrived at the airport in Jakarta, the police saw him – I don’t know how – they caught him and X-rayed him, and they found it and it was drugs.” Arrested in 2001, Mr. Nwolise was convicted the following year of bringing 2.6 pounds of heroin into the country, and was sentenced to death. During his trial, according to Ms. Fatimah, Mr. Nwolise had no translator, and his Indonesian lawyer could barely communicate with him. She said that a judge, through an intermediary, offered to sentence him to prison rather than death if he paid a bribe of 200 million rupiah, worth about $22,000 at the time. “But he was just a poor courier. He didn’t have any money,” Ms. Fatimah said. Ms. Fatimah, who is Indonesian, met Mr. Nwolise in prison in 2007, when she was accompanying a friend who was visiting another inmate. The two married later that year; they have since had two children, now 5 and 3, but she has not brought them to see him since they were infants. She has told them that their father is working in an office in another country. In January, the Indonesian police accused Mr. Nwolise of running a drug syndicate from prison. No charges were brought, but Ms. Fatimah, who says emphatically that her husband is innocent of the accusation, believes it resulted in his being placed in the group of inmates now facing imminent execution. “Some woman on the outside blamed him,” Ms. Fatimah said, referring to a police informant, “but when they came to his cell, they never found anything – never, never, never. He never had a trial and next thing, they wanted to execute him.” 3 Likes 2 Shares
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| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by GboyegaD(m): 3:28pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
May their soul rest in perfect peace in advance. 13 Likes |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by LMAyedun(m): 3:29pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
Jamiu Owolabi Abashin, 50, Nigeria - Smuggling Heroin Jamiu Owolabi Abashin was living on the streets of Bangkok in 1998 when a fellow African living there took pity on him and brought him home. Shortly thereafter, according to Mr. Abashin, his new friend asked whether he wanted a quick-paying job, in which he would get $400 for bringing a package of clothing to the friend’s wife in Surabaya, Indonesia, where she sold used shirts and pants. Mr. Abashin readily agreed, but soon wished he hadn’t: The package contained nearly 12 pounds of heroin, and he was arrested after landing at Surabaya’s airport. Mr. Abashin, who was traveling on a false Spanish passport, contended he was duped. He was convicted in 1999 and sentenced to life in prison, which was reduced to 20 years on appeal. State prosecutors challenged the sentence reduction before the Indonesian Supreme Court, which in 2006 sentenced Mr. Abashin to death. In a request for presidential clemency in 2008, he admitted knowingly smuggling the drugs. The request was denied in January. The Indonesian government refers to him as Raheem Agbaje Salami, the name on the fake Spanish passport he was using when he was arrested. Ursa Supit, an Indonesian legal activist who is advocating on Mr. Abashin’s behalf, says that because he had no money, he was assigned a state lawyer for his trial and had no legal counsel when he appealed to the Supreme Court. Mr. Abashin, who now has a lawyer, is challenging Mr. Joko’s rejection of his clemency request. “He has been inside now for 17 years, and he has never broken a rule inside,” Ms. Supit said. “And now they are going to execute him. He’s never had money for lawyers. It’s not fair.” 1 Share
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| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by LMAyedun(m): 3:29pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
Okwudili Oyatanze, 41, Nigeria - Smuggling heroin The YouTube clip shows what seems to be a typical Sunday religious service at a small church. A young African man, accompanied by an Asian guitarist, sings a heartfelt gospel song as the audience sings along. But the camera does not show the security guards, iron bars and barbed wire fences that would have indicated this was no ordinary place. The singer, Okwudili Oyatanze, was giving his regular performance at a penitentiary outside the Indonesian capital, Jakarta. Known in Indonesia’s penal system as “The Death Row Gospel Singer,” Mr. Oyatanze, 41, was arrested in 2001 while trying to smuggle 5.5 pounds of heroin through Jakarta’s international airport, in his stomach, after arriving on a flight from Pakistan. He was convicted the following year and sentenced to death. Mr. Oyatanze has made the most of his incarceration, writing more than 70 songs and recording multiple albums behind bars. He has performed with prison guards as well as fellow inmates. In the video, shot in 2008, Mr. Oyatanze sang his song “God You Know,” which was also the name of an album he released that year. “He has turned his life around in jail,” said the Rev. Charles Burrows, a Catholic priest from Ireland who now lives in Indonesia and is offering religious counseling to Mr. Oyatanze as he awaits his execution. Raised in outheastern Nigeria, Mr. Oyatanze started a garment business in 1999, traveling to Indonesia to buy clothing and resell it in Nigeria. The business collapsed, and Mr. Oyatanze, heavily in debt, traveled to Pakistan to try to revive it, at the suggestion of a fellow Nigerian living there. The plan involved swallowing capsules of heroin before boarding a flight to Jakarta. “There was a chance to earn some easy money, so he became a courier,” Mr. Burrows said. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/24/world/asia/26indonesia-listy.html? 6 Likes 1 Share
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| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by nduchucks: 3:31pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
Do we have Indonesian citizens in Nigeria who can be charged with choice crimes and sentenced to death? For each Nigerian they execute there, we should respond with 4 Indonesian citizens. nansense  83 Likes 8 Shares |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by izuch(m): 3:32pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
Fp material  1 Like 2 Shares |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by vicadex07(m): 3:34pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
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| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by midolian(m): 3:38pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
nduchucks:if according to their law, the penalty for a crime such as drug trafficking is death, then so be it. Stop sounding as if they hate Nigerians. Bn Nigerian doesn't mean you shld go to anoda man's land and commit offences punishable by death.. Afterall, Nigerians are not the first set of foreigners to be killed in indonesia for an offence as this..May God give their sympathizers the strength to bear this. 163 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by LMAyedun(m): 3:40pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
nduchucks: 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by nduchucks: 3:48pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
midolian: Its the application of the law that is questionable. Go and research how many Westerners have been executed for violating the same law. FYI: Not a single American who violated the same law has ever been executed. 63 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by FastShipping: 3:57pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
nduchucks: I am not against death penalty for drug barons but I have problem with some of these countries executing Africans for drug offences and sparing the lives of Americans or other westerners who have committed same crime. Our government needs to start rounding up citizens of Indonesia, Malaysia and others and start charging them arbitrarily so we can use that to negotiate freedom of our people on death row in those countries. 31 Likes 3 Shares |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by midolian(m): 3:57pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
nduchucks:my friend, that still doesn't make drug trafficking by Nigerians legal..indonesia has always got the appetite for executing foreigners and that's more of the reason why the foreigners need to be very careful too.. Plus, In an occasion or two, brazilians, australians and some others have bn executed for drug trafficking in indonesia.. So why naija own go differnt? http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-26/zhang-indonesia-likely-to-execute-more-foreigners/6263122 9 Likes 1 Share
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| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by Nobody: 3:57pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
RIP. |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by jascon1(m): 3:57pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
Chai! From fast cash to fast death. What does it profit a man who tried to gain the whole world but lost his soul? 12 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by ramdris(m): 4:00pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
RIP to them all in advance. |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by nduchucks: 4:01pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
midolian: I'm afraid you've completely missed the point I was making. I don't think there is anything I can do to rectify your comprehension. 5 Likes |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by midolian(m): 4:11pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
nduchucks:stop getting emotional here guy. If u want to understand, put sentiment aside. you are the one with comprehension problem..giv me the name of any1 found guilty of this offence in indonesia that went scot free cos he is American..here again is the statistics ..you can confirm here http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-26/zhang-indonesia-likely-to-execute-more-foreigners/6263122 5 Likes
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| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by agarawu23(m): 4:15pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
na wa 1 Like |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by nduchucks: 4:15pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
midolian: I see you are not lazy, very Good. Now show us the statistics of how many people were convicted of the crime and their countries of origin. Then tell us why the've decided to execute more Nigerians. According to your graph they've executed 6 and are getting ready to waste 4 more, yet you are here defending them. Stop defending unfair treatment of Nigerians. Are you their agent  17 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by totoisgud(m): 4:17pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
FastShipping: Let us b critical abt this. Wat if Indonesia & d Americans hv an economic deal d Indonesians r benefiting 4rm? Do u think they wud want 2 risk breaking such ties with these executions? D real question is dis. Wat r Indonesians benefiting 4rm Nigeria? Y should their gov't give Nigerian criminals any preferential treatment? 10 Likes |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by midolian(m): 4:21pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
nduchucks:na wa 4 u o Bros..when Nigerians commit the offence the most, what do you expect? U and I know Nigerians with this "I must survive" attitude na. 28 Likes 2 Shares |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by Nobody: 4:21pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
nduchucks: Superpowers get away with more. End of. 3 Likes |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by nduchucks: 4:24pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
midolian: Cut the crap!!! No Nigerian deserves to die anywhere in the world for such a crime. 4 Likes |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by niceguy7(m): 4:33pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
Tinz dey hapun ooo |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by adorablepepple(f): 4:34pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
Rest in peace n ask for forgiveness before u r killed! |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by Nobody: 4:34pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
I pity for them. However, this should serve as a lesson to others who go to Asian countries to deal on drugs! Facts about the Yorubas of Delta State: https://www.nairaland.com/2278577/facts-yoruba-enclave-heart-aniocha |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by kombats: 4:34pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
3 frm eastern nigeria 1 from western nigeria good. Singing Sound Sultan Ajo Odabi Ile(Area) for them. Cocoa burst for him belle them write Rest in peace 3 Likes |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by Importguru(m): 4:35pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
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| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by hahn(m): 4:35pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
nduchucks: You're just being emotional. First of all, there are more Nigerians involved in drug trafficking than Americans and as a result more get executed. Let's face it, the total amount of Nigerians that have been maltreated legally abroad are not up to 5 percent of the total amount of Nigerians that are being mistreated here. Go to kirikiri and see how many people(Nigerians) that have been in awaiting trial without being charged to court for more than 5years simply due to raiding. Before you start protesting about how other countries treat us, I'd advice you channel that energy within our own borders 36 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by Misogynist2014(m): 4:35pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
Help me greet Charles Darwin. 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Re: Photos And Profiles Of The 4 Nigerians To Be Executed In Indonesia by Ayoswit(f): 4:35pm On Apr 26, 2015 |
pathetic |
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