Okowa Calls for Abolition of Death Penalties

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Delta State Governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has called for the abolition of death sentence in Nigeria.

He made the call yesterday in Asaba, the state capital, when he received members of the Presidential Advisory Committee on Prerogative of Mercy led by Mr. William Alo.

Okowa noted that Nigeria is a major player in the international community, adding that “we need to ask ourselves if death sentence is still relevant in our society? In many states, many governors are not ready to sign the death warrant, why are they not signing the death warrant? The world is moving away from death sentence.”

While decrying the overpopulation of Nigerian prisons, Okowa urged the federal government to upgrade the facilities in the prisons.

“We need to evolve measures that will make Nigerian Prisons to be truly reformatory centres, so that ex-convicts can be better citizensm,” he said

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