By Uthman-Baba Naseer,Minna <\/p>\n
A total of forty eight inmates on death row (IDR), are currently languishing in two of the Custodial Centres in Minna,in Niger State without being executed, investigations have revealed.<\/p>\n
Out of the inmates, twenty eight of them are in Minna old Medium Security Custodial Centre among them three women while twenty others are in Minna new Medium Security Custodial Centre in Tunga.<\/p>\n
The inmates,according to our findings, have been awaiting execution in the last fifteen years without knowing their fates.<\/p>\n
It was gathered that their long stay awaiting execution was attributed to the refusal of state governors to sign their death warrant.<\/p>\n
Our Correspondent was told that the refusal of state governors to sign death warrants since the Democratic administration,was due to condemnation from some civil society organizations (CSOs) and condemnation from some international communities such as Amnesty International.<\/p>\n
Investigation conducted by this reporter in two of the facilities in Minna,revealed that the inmates are behind the incessant jail break across the Custodial centres in some part of the country as a result of their overstay on awaiting execution without knowing when the execution would be carried out.<\/p>\n
In most of the Correctional Custodies, these inmates on death row, due to their over stay at the facilities, create unprecedented havoc leading to jailbreak or security breach in the facilities.<\/p>\n
\u201c Inmates on death row (IDR), are seriously posing a security threat to correctional Custody across the country. Whenever we record any reported case of jailbreak in any correctional centre they are behind it.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir stays in our facilities without knowing their fate, pose a grave security threat to facilities. Some of them were just kept here for years. We have some of them that stayed for the past twelve to fifteen years on death row.<\/p>\n
\u201cKeeping these inmates in our facilities without the governors doing anything concerning their execution,we are at the receiving end of their elongated stay without knowing their fate\u201d. a correctional officer in one of the Custodial Centre in Minna told our Correspondent.<\/p>\n
However, eleven Inmates on death row from Gaba Community in Lavun Local Goverment Area who were sentenced to death by a Minna High Court number six sometimes in 2024, by Justice Maimuna Abubakar, were unconditionally granted padorned by Governor Mohammed Umar Bago,<\/p>\n
They were found guilty for killing eight farmers from Amfani Community in Gaba District of Lavun Local Government over Communal clashes between the two Communities of Amfani and Gaba.<\/p>\n
Our findings further revealed that since the inception of Democratic dispensation in 1999, no State governor signed a death warrant for the execution of the inmates in their respective states.<\/p>\n
It was reliably gathered that the only governor that signed the death warrant since the present Democratic dispensation was Senator Adams Oshiomole when he was a
\ngovernor of Edo State in 2003.<\/p>\n
Speaking in an interview with Journalists in his office in Minna,the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Niger State,Alhaji Nasir Muazu Esq, explained that the refusal of the governor to sign the death warrant of the inmates was not deliberate.<\/p>\n
He stated that the inmates have right of Appeal of their conviction from the High Court up to Appeal Court to Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
\u201c I don’t want to believe that the governor deliberately refused to sign death warrant of inmates on death row as you called them. The reason is that they have right of Appeal their conviction from the High Court to Court of Appeal even up to Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
\u201c They have to exhort their right of Appeal. If the Court of Appeal upheld their conviction, they can still go up to the Supreme Court to still challenge the decision of the Appeal Court. And they have many of such cases in the Apex court pending.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo for you to say that the governors deliberately refused to sign death warrants of those inmates is not true\u201d the Attorney General stated in an interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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