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Amnesty International has urged the Federal and State Governments to abolish decease penalty.
Mrs Barbara Magaji,the Programmes Manager of Amnesty Internationa, made the telephone during a stakeholders dialog to commemorate the World Day Against Death Penalty.
The Programme was organised by Amnesty International successful collaboration with the French Embassy successful Nigeria connected Thursday successful Abuja.
Magaji stressed the request to region each provisions successful nationalist and authorities laws that interruption planetary quality rights instrumentality particularly provisions that let decease penalty.
She besides urged the authorities to guarantee that the transgression justness strategy was sufficiently resourced and susceptible of investigating crimes effectively.
She added that the instrumentality should beryllium capable to enactment victims and warrant just trials without recourse to the decease penalty.
According to her, the Federal Government should, done the National Assembly, see the abolition of decease punishment for each crimes successful the ongoing Nigerian Constitutional Amendment process.
“This is due to the fact that determination is nary convincing grounds that the decease punishment has a unsocial deterrent effect connected crimes.
“In Nigeria presently, 26 states and the FCT person introduced oregon amended existing laws prescribing the decease punishment for kidnapping, banditry, cattle rustling, and cultism.
“In spite the instauration of the decease penalty, the state continues to grounds an summation successful banditry, abduction and wide criminality. ”
Magaji noted that the Amnesty International probe connected the unit and killings successful Nigeria showed an summation successful wide insecurity, unlawful killings, and kidnap for ransom.
“This is successful spite of the instauration of the decease punishment to crimes of banditry, kidnapping, cattle rustling, and cultism.
“Our documentation of insecurity successful 2024 indicates that determination person been implicit 181 incidents resulting successful extra-judicial killings arising from banditry/terrorism, municipality transgression and herdsmen farmers struggle and SGBV.
“This has led to implicit 3169 deaths. In 2024, 881 radical were kidnapped. In 2025, determination were 2313 deaths arising from 204 insecurity incidents with immoderate situations resulting successful the kidnapping of 1025 people,” she said.
Magaji explained that the rising insecurity successful Nigeria was a operation of respective factors that affected nine astatine antithetic levels, from the nationalist to the assemblage level.
She added that the underlying causes of insecurity needed to beryllium addressed broadly, and a broad transgression prevention mechanics deployed alternatively than the speedy hole attack that was ineffective.
She said that Amnesty International was opposed the decease punishment successful each cases.
“Amnesty International considers that decease punishment violates the close to beingness arsenic enshrined successful the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter connected Human and Peoples’ Rights.
“The decease punishment is often imposed aft a grossly unfair trial. But adjacent erstwhile trials respect planetary standards of fairness, the hazard of executing the guiltless tin ne'er beryllium afloat eliminated.
“The decease punishment volition inevitably assertion guiltless victims, arsenic has been persistently demonstrated. The inclination towards abolition of the decease punishment is clear.
“In opposing the decease penalty, Amnesty International is successful nary mode seeking to condone the crimes for which those sentenced to decease were convicted,” she added.
She noted that Amnesty International acknowledged afloat the suffering of victims of convulsive transgression and their families and recognised the work of governments to protecting their rights.
“Amnesty International besides believed that radical recovered blameworthy pursuing a proceedings that met planetary just proceedings standards should beryllium held accountable but without recourse to the decease penalty,” she said.
According to her, presently, 143 countries person present abolished the decease punishment successful instrumentality oregon practice.
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