Nigerian convict Chijoke Stephen
Obioha was executed in Singapore early on Friday, November 18, 2016 after the
Court of Appeal dismissed an Urgent Criminal Motion filed by his lawyer, Mr
Joseph Chen, Thursday. The Singapore Anti-Death Penalty Campaign member, Mr
Ravi, who is assisting Mr Joseph with the research for the case, took to his
Facebook page an hour ago to announce the news “This morning, at 6am, the
execution of Chijioke Stephen Obioha took place. I am not even sure if his
family from Nigeria were able to attend. Soon it will be all forgotten together
with Chijioke’s name, but for the many of us who fight and campaign to
eradicate this barbaric practice of death by hanging, and for those of us who
challenge the mandatory death penalty for drug trafficking in Singapore, our
work will go on. And it must”, Ravi wrote. Chijoke was arrested in 2007 and
sentenced to the Mandatory Death Penalty in 2008 after being found guilty of
trafficking more than 2kg of Cannabis.
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