Suspect (File photo)

Twenty-three Nigerians are on the death row in Saudi Arabia. They may be beheaded any time from now. Besides, 11 are serving various jail terms for drug trafficking in the kingdom.

Another suspected trafficker is awaiting trial.

The 23 death row inmates could not be named for “diplomatic and sensitivity” reasons.

Unless President Muhammadu Buhari intervenes, the death toll could be higher, a source said.

The “late” response of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to a memo from the Nigerian Consul-General, Amb. M. S. Yunusa, is believed to have contributed to the execution of a Nigerian woman, Kudirat Adeshola Afolabi about two weeks ago.

It was learnt that the ministry had been “diplomatically slow” in responding to issues connected with Nigerians.

No ministry official was willing to comment on the allegation yesterday.

The Consul-General wrote twice to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chief Geoffrey Onyeama, on December 3, 2018 and February 6, 2019, raising the alarm over the plight of Nigerians in Saudi Arabia.

He said the nation should endeavour to use its diplomatic bond with Saudi Arabia to seek pardon for all our compatriots condemned to death and for those serving various jail terms.

But more worrisome to the Consul-General is what he believe is the security lapse at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano, which is being used for massive drug trafficking.

The envoy admitted that there is a drug syndicate at the airport.

He alleged that the syndicate in cahoots with greedy airline officials at MAKIA were checking in extra bags containing prohibited drugs.

He said members of the syndicate had been using particulars of innocent passengers and baggage tags to smuggle drugs leading to the arrest of Nigerians who had no links with drug trafficking.

One of the memos said: “Furthermore, it is with humility that I bring to the Honourable Minister‘s knowledge that, sadly, there are a number of Nigerians arrested for alleged drug related offence who are currently in detention at Dhahban Prison (Male Section) and Madina Prison (Male & Female Sections). Mission was unable to gain Consular access to them as the host authorities have flatly refused to grant permission for such despite several requests to that effect.

“Following the outcome of investigations carried out by both the NDLEA and the Nigeria Police (Kano State Command) the Honourable Minister may wish to note that:

“There exists a criminal syndicate collaborating with greedy officials of some airlines at MAKIA, notably Ethiopian and Egyptian Airlines, who connive to check in drug-laden bags, using passenger’s particulars without their consent or knowledge;

“Nigerian victims of the activities of these criminal gangs were arrested and detained in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking offences they did not commit;

“The outcome of investigations by the Nigeria Police and NDLEA absolved these victims of complicity in the crime of peddling drugs into the Kingdom. The investigations further established beyond reasonable doubts that the victims were unaware of the drug-laden baggage that were checked in bearing their particulars by unknown persons at MAKIA, Kano;

“All the suspected culprits had been apprehended and a case of criminal conspiracy, breach of trust and drug trafficking has been established against them, hence, they were arraigned at the Federal High Court, Kano;

“There are 24 Nigerians who were condemned to death between 2016 2018 for drug trafficking in contravention of the Kingdom’s Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control Law issued under Decree No. M/39 dated 8/7/1428AH;

“There are 12 Nigerian women currently serving various jail terms at Dhahban prison for drug smuggling.

“Meanwhile, the following drug traffickers are serving various jail terms:

a) Halimat Oyebanjo Oyaya – 10 years

b) Sherifat Shawni – 4 years

c) Limata Ahmad – 10 years

d) Halimat Isah – 5 years

e) Olubumi Adejarani Olaniyan – 10 years

f) Omobolanle Funke – 15 years

g) Nuratu Bolanle Yusuf – 15 years

h) Maryam Ibrahim Tanko – 7 years

i) Rahma Abdulkarim 20 years

j) Nuratu Yusuf Abike – 20 years

k) Bolaji Kehinde – 10 years

I)Yasirat Abolanle Salau – awaiting trail.

“There are a number of Nigerians accused of drug trafficking incarcerated at various Saudi Prisons but the Mission was unable to undertake consular visits due to refusal by the Saudi authorities to grant permission for such visits despite repeated requests and

“Drug smuggling into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Nigerians has reached an alarming proportion and all hands must be on deck to check this menace.”

The Consul-General gave insight into how a syndicate had infiltrated the security in Kano to perpetrate drug trafficking.

His memo drew the minister’s attention to “a frightening development that portends grave danger to passenger travelling to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA), Kano.”

The Consul-General made five recommendations to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, including the need to seek clemency for innocent Nigerians held for drug trafficking in Saudi Arabia.

The recommendations are:

Enhancement of security surveillance by installing functional CCTV cameras at the checking-in counters and other sensitive areas of airports in Nigeria;

Henceforth, Nigeria Airport Management Authority (NAMA) in collaboration with other relevant security agencies should institute a compulsory baggage identification procedure before boarding for all checked-in luggage;

Every passenger should check in his/her luggage personally and not through third parties;

The trial of those found culpable for checking-in extra-baggage’s using the identities of victims should be pursued expeditiously and the attested copies of the judgments be made available to the Mission for onward transmission to our host authorities as proof that the culprits were punished in accordance with our laws; and

The Federal Government should henceforth, appeal for clemency and pardon for all our compatriots condemned to death and for those serving various jail terms.



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NCAN Una dey on leave?

This is bad.

Kill anyone find with drugs simple.

Corrupt NCAN where are you?

This List Na Tribal Scrutiny
But of a truth, let me say without fear or favour.
Igbo leads in Drug, Kidnapping and armed robbery and baby factory.
Yoruba leads in Rituals, Yahoo and thuggery
Hausa/fulani leads in terrorism
Ikwerres leads in Cultism.
Akwaibom leads in Promiscuity. [sex for fun]
Urhobo leads in Wuruwuru.
Edo leads in prostitution [sex for cash]

NCAN pls is ds names Yoloba mooselehm?

we are not sincere in this country.

If the government can keep a watchful. eye on the security details of the Aminu Kano Int'l airport they would have smashed this devilish drug syndicate.

I know some northerners who are shaytaan (Devils) in human skins. Forget about their muslim names.
I am a Muslim ,and I hate it with passion when I see Muslims peddling drugs.

This idea of everyone must make it is driving people into devilish acts that they are using to destroy others because of greed and discontentment.

Those who are caught slipping drugs into the bags of unsuspecting travellers should be thoroughly drilled so they can lead to their sponsors ,and once these sponsors are caught and judged to be behind this whole mess, they should be beheaded without mercy.
I don't care if they have children or wives.

You can't be destroying others to make your family comfortable. It is not done anywhere.

Truth be told, all these crimes on international soil and on foreigners can be summarised under one bucket - ritual killings!

Those in SE butchering children taken from baby factories and selling to ritualists. Those in SW kidnapping and butchering humans for body parts to ritualists. Those in North under guise of fulani herdsman, bokoharam, zamfara bandits, kidnapping, beheading and harvesting human organs to sell to marabouts.

Ritualists and marabouts are hired by yahoo+ boys, drug mules, human traffickers.

The day after the woman was beheaded in Saudi Arabia, another Nigerian was arrested at their airport in Jeddah for drug. Some of these people put a lot of trust in the efficacy of the soap they use to bathe them in the shrine and are misled to think they are invisible underneath all the lotion and jazz the jujuman used to fortify them. So they arrive foreign ports believing Arab cannot see them, Malaysian cannot see them, Phillipino cannot see them. I wonder what shock goes through their mind when intercepted.

These are poor people. Where did they get money to book airline, book hotel on foreign soil? Someone financed them. This someone owned the drug. This someone paid for the butchered human parts. This someone paid the ritualist and marabout. Who is this someone?

We need to find them and start butchering them and deny their relatives the joy of burying their body they way their atrocities have made their victims unknown and unfound.

For a human to hear on news that Saudi just killed a person for drug offense...and then to get on plane a day after and head to that same fate.....my people something is not right. I even wonder if these people themselves are victims...acting under hypnotic spell and turned by the jujuman into a zombie that just goes through the motions, all reasoning and logic muted in their brain.

As long yahoo+ is rewarding, drug moneybis rewarding, human trafficking is rewarding innocent children will keep dissapearing from our streets on a regular and baby factory will not stop production.

Buhari has capacity to stop this bullshyyte. He did before in 1983. Every week a Nigerian was caught in US or Europe smuggling in drug.

Convicted drug pushers and their financiers were executed right in front of their family house and the corpse left there for the family to resolve their shame. Within six months after this brutal but necessary response not a single Nigerian was reported caught trying to smuggle drug into any foreign soil anywhere on the planet.

We need a similar enforcement. The level of cruelty of these yahoo+ boys, the drug barons and the human traffickers on innocent citizens is beyond tolerable. We are at a point these beasts are becoming mainstream elites in society.

NextLevel should kill this nonsense!

Sophisticated drug smugglers at it again.

It takes them seconds to report a crime once the culprit is an Igbo just to create the impression that Igbos are the only tribe that commits crime in Nigeria.

ThinkSmarter:
This List Na Tribal Scrutiny
But of a truth, let me say without fear or favour.
Igbo leads in Drug, Kidnapping and armed robbery and baby factory.
Yoruba leads in Rituals, Yahoo and thuggery
Hausa/fulani leads in terrorism
Ikwerres leads in Cultism.
Akwaibom leads in Promiscuity. [sex for fun]
Urhobo leads in Wuruwuru.
Edo leads in prostitution [sex for cash]

igbo leads in drugs but thanks to u afonjas and amajiris no igbo name was on the list

So the wore hijabs and jalabias to the country just to go do drugs? Abeg anyone who truly ran foul of the law of their host country in respect to drug abuse should be executed even if It's my person.They were all warned.

All Muslims, I m sure they were there for hajj

ThinkSmarter:
This List Na Tribal Scrutiny
But of a truth, let me say without fear or favour.
Igbo leads in Drug, Kidnapping and armed robbery and baby factory.
Yoruba leads in Rituals, Yahoo and thuggery
Hausa/fulani leads in terrorism
Ikwerres leads in Cultism.
Akwaibom leads in Promiscuity. [sex for fun]
Urhobo leads in Wuruwuru.
Edo leads in prostitution [sex for cash]

Thuggery and cultism goes hand in hand with kidnapping and armed robbery.. you cant be a thug and not either be an armed robber or a kidnapper.

When did promiscuity become a crime?

Wow! Look what we have here.

We all seen the names and for the first time, no tribal comments on the names above. Cos the stereotype expected was not found. Irrespective of who committed the crime, an image is been tarnished.

My question is who buying those hard drugs?

If the citizens of Saudi isn't patronizing those drug traffickers then no body will care taking it to their country.

Just as they checkmate and prosecute the sellers, they should also checkmate and prosecute the buyers (which are Saudi Arabian citizens.)

Igbos are intelligent, you will never see them near Saudi Arabia in the name of drug peddling.

24 hours series come to my mind. They should have allowed our officers work to arrest these criminals before exposing the details.
I wish we have Jack Bauer kind of in this country. All this kind of yeye people making the innocent passengers among them suffer would have smell hell. But welcome to a country sha. We are in Nigeria they are working freely with mopol

ThinkSmarter:
This List Na Tribal Scrutiny
But of a truth, let me say without fear or favour.
Igbo leads in Drug, Kidnapping and armed robbery and baby factory.
Yoruba leads in Rituals, Yahoo and thuggery
Hausa/fulani leads in terrorism
Ikwerres leads in Cultism.
Akwaibom leads in Promiscuity. [sex for fun]
Urhobo leads in Wuruwuru.
Edo leads in prostitution [sex for cash]

see ur life? All the names mentioned, no igbo among them. Why not focus on the issue instead of tribal sentiment

lastempero:
Igbos are intelligent, you will never see them near Saudi Arabia in the name of drug peddling.

But they do drugs in south African


https://www.nairaland.com/5127339/emeka-nzelu-nigerian-man-shot

Charelsz:
But they do drugs in south African


https://www.nairaland.com/5127339/emeka-nzelu-nigerian-man-shot

There na 50/50
But Saudi na 95/5 slim chance of survival.

Arda1000:
igbo leads in drugs but thanks to u afonjas and amajiris no igbo name was on the list

Show me any list from any government agency showing the East is leading in drug peddling, I have couple of reports that states otherwise, but I will like you to help your claim.

lastempero:


There na 50/50
But Saudi na 95/5 slim chance of survival.

dude crime does not pay,don't encourage it.

Charelsz:
dude crime does not pay,don't encourage it.

But corruption pays abi or you feel most of those drug dealers purposedly ended as drug dealers,please dont judge a life you have not lived b4 I would rather encourage you to preach against corruption because it is the mother of all evil.

Khaleell001:
we are not sincere in this country.

If the government can keep a watchful. eye on the security details of the Aminu Kano Int'l airport they would have smashed this devilish drug syndicate.

None if the drug mules caught trsveled out of Kano International airport. That airport has scanners making drug smuggling difficult. They used others thst dont like Ilorin airport.

later they will say its our work in the south east...all am seeing is yoloba names ....

lastempero:


But corruption pays abi or you feel most of those drug dealers purposedly ended as drug dealers,please dont judge a life you have not lived b4 I would rather encourage you to preach against corruption because it is the mother of all evil.

owk

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