Singapore to hang Nigerian trafficker, rejects new appeal.
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Singapore to hang Nigerian trafficker, rejects new appeal
2007/1/20
By Gillian Wong SINGAPORE, AP
Singapore was set to hang a 21-year-old Nigerian convicted of heroin trafficking a week from Friday, a human rights group said, urging Nigeria's government to intervene.
Amara Tochi Iwuchukwu is to be executed Jan. 26 at Singapore's Changi Prison after the Southeast Asian country's president rejected his clemency appeal, according to a statement from Nigeria's nongovernment Civil Liberties Organization, or CLO.
A letter from Singapore's Prisons Department informed Iwuchukwu's family of the execution and said the department would allow him extra visits in the three days before he is executed.
His family lives in Nigeria.
Iwuchukwu was caught after arriving from Dubai at Singapore's Changi Airport in November 2004 with 100 capsules containing 727 grams (26 ounces) of heroin, estimated by authorities to be worth 1.5 million Singapore dollars (US$970,000; euro795,930).
The rights group said that Iwuchukwu's trial was marked by "irregularities," and that it has made several unsuccessful appeals to the Nigerian government to intervene in the matter. "While the CLO recognizes the right of the Singaporean government to punish any person within its territorial jurisdiction for any act which constitutes an offense in Singapore, we insist that international standards of justice and due process of law must be observed," the statement said.
Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry could not be reached for comment Friday, and did not immediately respond to e-mailed questions. -
pls oso investigate thoroughly whether he got any connection wif the nigeria scams.
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let all the nigger men learn now never to play with singapore law's backside.
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I don't think that was the case, and it may have not been part of the charges.Originally posted by monoslayer:pls oso investigate thoroughly whether he got any connection wif the nigeria scams. -
how come his name sound like japanese...
that guy is stupid is it..dint he know Singapore like to hang ppl...comes here for what...
still young..21 only...what a waste -
So daring.
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Remember last year when Singapore hung that Vietnam born Aussie guy who trafficked drugs also?
Remember how WE got called barbarians by the aussies?
History will repeat itself -
nth new wad
see singapore got more scammers or nigeria?
singapore shld nt hav wasted taxpayer money to put him in prison and feed him with singapore food lo, shld hav juz send him back n forget it
wad a waste of time and effort -
Wasted. Singapore will never step back on such matters. Goodbye young man.
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send him back still have to pay the air ticket, then need more of our taxpayer's money liao!Originally posted by hiphop2009:nth new wad
see singapore got more scammers or nigeria?
singapore shld nt hav wasted taxpayer money to put him in prison and feed him with singapore food lo, shld hav juz send him back n forget it
wad a waste of time and effort -
okay he's not an elite.
hang him. -
So fast hang him.
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Hang him
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play wif fire, get burnt by fire la
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good bye.
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x2Originally posted by sinicker:okay he's not an elite.
hang him. hang! hang! hang! -
get tiger airways to fly dere la....$1.99 for a flight to nigeria....wooohooo.....Originally posted by Y_Shun:send him back still have to pay the air ticket, then need more of our taxpayer's money liao! -
No sympathy for black people unfortunally
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Why should Nigeria appeal? Their own country stones to death rape victims for adultery.
Tuong Van Ngyuen case different. He carried the passport of a nation that enshrines civil liberty. -
ya, den they banned the putfile website in sg coz of tat......Originally posted by Ignatiaus:Remember last year when Singapore hung that Vietnam born Aussie guy who trafficked drugs also?
Remember how WE got called barbarians by the aussies?
History will repeat itself
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Can makes MILLIONS if he can go thru.!!!Originally posted by missqi:So daring. -
How your logic works?Originally posted by iveco:Why should Nigeria appeal? Their own country stones to death rape victims for adultery.
Tuong Van Ngyuen case different. He carried the passport of a nation that enshrines civil liberty.
Are you ok or not?
Meat Pao. -
sometimes.. foreigners think... singapore is still a backward country... and its easy for them to traffick things...
wel..they are wrong... -
DOWN WITH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!!
What good does hanging do? You kill one of god's creation, causes misery to too many people who know the guy and dont give him a chance to repent.
Sure, there's something called deterance. But if hanging is the only form of deterance which we can think of, then i feel very sorry for our judicary. Maybe it even needs to be replaced if thats the case.
Furthermore, no one got hurt or harmed in the process, so what right do we have to take away his life?
an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind.
an eye for nothing makes us a fucked up country. -
it has happened liao....wad can we do? we are not the government, imppossible to go on riot right? maybe should ask the government to learn buddist,
killing is wrong, killing is wrong,