{"id":263430,"date":"2024-05-11T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T04:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=263430"},"modified":"2024-05-11T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T04:25:13","slug":"nigeria-senate-okays-death-penalty-for-drug-traffickers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=263430","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria senate okays death penalty for drug traffickers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/936\/93644702.jpg\" alt=\"Opioid abuse is widespread throughout Nigeria\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"article-123\">ABUJA, May 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A bill seeking to impose the death penalty on people convicted of drug trafficking has been passed for a third reading in Nigeria&#8217;s senate.<br><br>The proposed punishment, which is not yet law, replaces life imprisonment, which was previously the harshest sentence.<br><br>It was tabled on Thursday by Senator Mohammed Monguno on behalf of the joint committees on Judiciary and Drugs and Narcotics.<br><br>Senators who supported the bill argued that the threat of execution would serve as a stronger deterrent to drug traffickers than life imprisonment.<br><br>However, lawmakers who opposed the measure expressed concerns about the irreversible nature of the death penalty and the possibility of wrongful convictions.<br><br>The majority of senators voted in support of the bill, which also seeks to strengthen the operations of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).<br><br>The bill now awaits presidential assent to become law.<br><br>Nigeria has recently made substantial seizures of drugs, ranging from cannabis to opioids, from suspected traffickers. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABUJA, May 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; A bill seeking to impose the death penalty on people convicted of drug trafficking has been passed for a third reading in Nigeria&#8217;s senate. The proposed punishment, which is not yet law, replaces life imprisonment, which was previously the harshest sentence. It was tabled on Thursday by Senator Mohammed Monguno [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":263431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263432,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263430\/revisions\/263432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/263431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}