23 Nigerians Await Executioners in Saudi Arabia

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Eight new executioners recently engaged in Saudi Arabia to carry out an increasing number of death sentences by public beheading have 23 Nigerians on their latest list.

NewsmakersNG learnt that the Nigerians were sentenced to death over drug-related offences.

They were found guilty and convicted for contravening the narcotic and psychotropic substances which are punishable by death in the country.

Reports say they were taken into custody between 2016 and 2017 at the King Abdul-Aziz International Airport, Madinah. They reportedly hid the banned substances in their rectums as was revealed by the Saudi document.

Saudi Arabia executes not less than 90 drugs and homicide offenders yearly.

Here is a list of the condemned Nigerians:

Adeniyi Adebayo Zikri

Tunde Ibrahim

Jimoh Idhola Lawal

Lolo Babatunde

Sulaiman Tunde

Idris Adewuumi Adepoju

Abdul Raimi Awela Ajibola

Yusuf Makeen Ajiboye

Adam Idris Abubakar

Saka Zakaria

Biola Lawal

Isa Abubakar Adam

Ibrahim Chiroma

Hafis Amosu

Aliu Muhammad

Funmilayo Omoyemi Bishi

Mistura Yekini

Amina Ajoke Alobi

Kuburat Ibrahim

Alaja Olufunke Alalaoe Abdulqadir

Fawsat Balagun Alabi

Aisha Muhammad Amira

Adebayo Zakariya.

A few weeks back, one Kudirat Afolabi was executed by the Saudi authorities for drug trafficking. Another Nigerian, Saheed Sobade, who was reportedly nabbed with 1,183 grams of cocaine powder in Jeddah, was also recently executed.

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