Four Nigerians gets firing squard, others for drug crimes.....SEE PHOTOS

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Four Nigerians were executed in Indonesian on Tuesday and four
others for drug-related offences despite pleas by the United Nations,
the European Union, Amnesty International and the Federal Government.
The Nigerians were identified as Martin Anderson, 50; Silvester
Nwolise, 47; Okwudili Oyatanze, 41, and Jamiu Abashin, 50.
The convicts were reportedly taken to the Nusakambangan Island where
they were executed by firing squad on Tuesday evening.
According to a report by theUK Guardian, Abashin was said to be
homeless in Bangkok when a new "friend" offered him $400 to take some
clothes to Indonesia.
He was nabbed in Surabaya with 5.5kilogrammes of heroin and sentenced
to death in 1999.
Abashin was said to have appealed for presidential clemency, claiming
he never knew he was carrying the drugs. His plea was rejected.
Nwolise was sentenced to death in 2002 for smuggling a kilogramme of
heroin into Indonesia.
Oyatanze was sentenced to death in 2002, after being found guilty of
attempting to bring 2.5kg of heroin through Jakarta in capsules inside
his stomach.
The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, had on Monday
personally appealed to Indonesia to stop their execution.
The European Union had also berated Indonesia's plans to execute the convicts.
The EU had noted that the death penalty was not a solution to the rise
in drug-related crimes in the country.
The only woman among the convicted, Mary Jane Fiesta Veloso, a
Filipino, was spared in the last minute because a woman who reportedly
tricked her into carrying drugs turned herself in.
The remains of the convicted would be taken to Jakarta, the Indonesia
capital, on Tuesday according to reports.
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