Nigeria: Jonathan Asks Governors to Enforce Capital Punishment
President Goodluck Jonathan has called
on governors to be alive to their constitutional responsibility of signing
death warrant for the enforcement of capital punishment. The president, who
made the call yesterday during the Father's Day Service held at the Aso Villa
in Abuja, was speaking against the backdrop of lack of discipline in the
society.
He said, "these days, because of
modern life, discipline is almost gone. Discipline can be in various forms. In
the states, it could be admonition. Magistrate can just admonish and allow him
(a suspect) to go. From admonition to various forms of punishment, it could be
imprisonment. The extreme is capital punishment. If it is in the case of
capital punishment, the state governors will sign. Even governors sometimes find
it difficult to sign.
"I have been telling the governors
that they must sign because that is the law. The works we are doing have a very
sweet part and a very ugly part and we must perform both. No matter how painful
it is, it is part of their responsibilities."
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