₦airaland Forum

He should review his Library...There are Enactments which you ought to study sir...The ACJA was enacted 2015 which gave the president powers to sign and pardon where the offence is committed anywhere in Nigeria...He made comments on cases before 2015

Below is what ACJA, 2015, provides:

413. (1) Where the President decides that the sentence should not be commuted or that the
convict should not be pardoned or reprieved, the order of the President shall be duly signed
by him and sealed as in one of the forms set out in the Fourth Schedule of this Act or as near
to it as circumstances permit.
Where pardon or reprieve is not
granted.

(2) The order of the President:
(a) shall state the place and time, where and when the execution is to be and give directions as to
the place of burial of the body; or

(b) may direct that the execution shall take place at such time and such place and the body of the
convict executed shall be buried at such place as shall be appointed by some officer specified
in the order.

(3) When the place or time of execution or the place of burial is appointed by some person
and is not stated in the order of the President, the specified officer shall endorse on the
order over his signature the place and time of execution and place of burial.

414. A copy of the order issued by the President shall be forwarded to the official in charge
of the prison in which the person sentenced is confined, and the official in charge of the
prison shall give effect to the order of execution...
The president can sign a warrant of Death given at the FCT