No, we didn’t: Edo denies signing fresh death warrants

by Rachel Ogbu

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Following a news report about the death sentence of two convicted criminal in Edo State, the state government has denied that Governor Adams Oshiohmole recently signed the death warrants.

In a press statement issued and signed by Chief Press Secretary, Peter Okhiria on Wednesday, the government described the story as untrue.

“The attention of the Government of Edo State has been drawn to a news item on the scroll bar of the 7:00pm Prime News of Tuesday, 23rd July, 2013, of the Nigerian television Authority (NTA), Benin Network Centre to the effect that the state Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, has signed the death warrants of two more prisoners on death row in the state.

[READ: Death penalty: “We have a right to define what we regard as our national values” – Oshiomhole]

The statement said media reports was intended to cause disaffection in the state but that the governor would not shy away from carrying out his constitutional duties when the need arose.

The said false report was said to have been fuelled by Amnesty International in a statement yesterday which reportedly claimed that some condemned prisoners including one that missed execution in June, are about to be executed and have been moved closer to the gallows.

The human rights group’s claim appeared to have been anchored on a false news story by the Nigeria, national TV network, the NTA that the governor had signed death warrants for some convicts, PM News reports.

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