Sometimes I wonder if Nigerians are been set up in Indonesia for drug trafficking or if all of them are guilty of
that crime that was committed.
Its something worth taking a close look at.
Nigerians should take a close look at the executions taking place in Indonesia because some of these guys might be forced or pressurized to admit crimes that they didn’t do. We should always look at things both ways before placing judgement on Nigerians in Indonesia.
If Indonesians wants to get rid of Nigerians from their country, they should just come out plain. I don’t trust them. if I would advised, Nigerians should avoid traveling 2 Indonesia for any purpose.
The executed convicts, Michael Titus Igweh, Nonso Kingsley Okonkwo and Humphrey Jefferson Ejike, had made passionate appeals to be spared but, according to the Indonesian government, the laws of their land had been broken and they had to pay.
While the fate of other death row convicts, including 21 more Nigerians is still unknown, we bring to you profiles of the three innocent convicts and how they were arrested.
Michael Titus Igweh
Michael Titus Igweh (real names Izuchukwu F. Ezimoha) was sentenced to death in 2003 after he was nabbed by the narcotic agency and the police in a raid on his apartment in Kelapa Gading, North Jakarta, in July, 2002, where the police found 48 kg of heroine in the operation.
Though he had maintained his innocence till the end, the conviction was handed down on him on October 23, 2003, by the Tangerang District Court. Igweh who, until his arrest and conviction, was an importer of clothing materials from the Asian country, had maintained that he was implicated by two other suspects, Marlena and Izuchukwu Okoloaja, who later died in police custody following the torture they went through.
In his appeal for clemency, Igweh had told the court that the police had at various times, electrocuted his genitals and he was forced to plead guilty to the offence.
Nonso Kingsley Okonkwo
Another Nigerian convict executed on Thursday, July 28, 2016, was Nonso Kingsley Okonkwo who was arrested on arrival at the Polonia Airport, Medan, on October 25, 2003. He had allegedly ingested 1.1kg of heroin and had passed the X-ray machines without detection until narcotics sniffer dogs found him out. While still pleading his innocence and claiming frame up, he was taken to a hospital where he was given drugs that made him excrete the heroin he had swallowed.
The police, during its investigations, were reported to have found that Okonkwo was a professional drug courier who had taken drugs into different countries like Pakistan,Thailand, Indonesia.
He was sentenced to death by the District Court (PN), in May 2004, while the High Court (PT), confirmed the sentence on August 16, 2004 and an appeal rejected on February 16, 2006.
He further appealed to the Indonesian Supreme Court on November 24, 2014, but the appeal was thrown out as well. He was sentenced by the presiding justices, PK Artidjo Alkostar and Sri Murwahyuni .
Humphrey Jefferson Ejike
Humphrey Jefferson Ejike, popularly called Doctor, was arrested on August 2, 2003 at a restaurant in Jalan Wahid Hasyim, Central Jakarta. A search conducted in his house allegedly came up with 1.7 kg of heroine and he was promptly sentenced to death by the Central Jakarta District Court (PN Jakpus), while the Jakarta High Court, also threw out his appeal.
Though Ejike maintained his innocence till the end, claiming that the Indonesian government wanted to kill him because of their perception that most Nigerians are known for drug trafficking, the Supreme Court also rejected his appeal on 27 September 2007.
For their own safety, I urged all Africans especially Nigerians to avoid Indonesia and other Asian countries.
You are not loved over there so why waste your precious lives….
Article by Lady Zoe, formerly based in Indonesia
People shld stop going there .. And also the truth is some Nigerian brothers are corrupt and we as a people must turn them in so tht we clean our name and reputation
How can they set up naija guys with that tiny brain of theirs bikonu? it should be the other way round naa. And what is there in Indonesia that we can’t live without? They have no value for human lives so people should let them eat their own flesh and drink their own blood.
If naijas can’t handle it bikonu,come home naa.you have families value you!!
Is a problem oo
Our government Don kill us
Set up? Really . Lol
Those guys doing this business knew what they are into,our pple are ready to pass through fire to get big money believing on that fake juju given to them by their so called harba .accept Jésus and believe in his Word.
The problem are Nigerians,in Japan monthly salary is 3000 to 5000 dollars but so many Nigerians don’t want to work but to do drugs.why?
Why are must we not be objective over this matter? The Indonesians has made their laws which is enshrined in their construction. Is this same prohibited drug law(s) limited to Nigerians in Indonesia? Am very sure that the answer obviously must be ”NO”. If the citizens of Indonesia and other countries in the world are executed in this act, why must we we complain about Nigerians who are caught against the laws of a land?
DON’T GO TO INDONESIA!!!!! Even if my company/someone decides to sponsor me, I ain’t going. Period!
Several times hrd that nigerian caught drugs trafficking not only Indonesia
Nothing like setup, Nigerians do drugs & arm robbery works abroad, I hate hearing people defending evils & criminals
Nothing like setup, Nigerians do drugs & arm robbery works abroad, I hate hearing people defending evils & criminals
If they are setting up Nigerians , then stop going there.
Abubarka abdul, why talk like you have not sinned before, do you know the story in the bible about d adulterous woman, she was supposed to be killed, but Jesus Christ told them be the first to cast stone if you have not signed before. Am not justifying their acts of drug trafficking but talk like one with human feelings. It could be anybody OK. Nigerians pls I beg of you, the country is hard we know but stop risking your lives of material things and prohibit going to Asia part of the world. Lord have mercy on us and those executed.
Poverty in Africa is causing all this. I tire
Stop drugs trafficking we won’t be killed
Oh my God.
Just because you haven’t traveled from Nigeria before that’s why you guys are saying what you don’t understand do you think it’s easy to stay in other man’s country and nake,if you have guys have traveled you will understand what we are passing through
We can fight for what is right but we not going to fight For Drug traffickers or waste our tears on them.
Evry1 is entitled to his or her own opinion like I said before
my question is who Are those people buying those drugs Is it their people or Nigerians there
“innocent Nigerians ” you say
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They kill people because of drugs then what happens if a person commits murder U0001f644
Why you talk like all Nigerians! I think in every country there are ppl who like to listening music loud! So plz don’t generalise
WTF are they doing there. Drugs… You sell drugs in China or Asian countries, get caught you die..
Exactly some are force to accept guilty.. if you see any oyibo in Nigeria or Africa kill them, they are heartless sets of people i swear
Everybody knows Nigerians are drug traffickers. Let them pay the ultimate price. What are they doing there anyway?
Contact me if he needs to be rescued…….no joke
Why Nigerian always going to Indonesia….is it a cause? Stay away from there country those people dealing with drugs and criminals
Nobody is setting anybody up… If you have any problem with another man’s country and their laws, Don’t go there…. Not by force for you to travel… …. Stay in your country and village
those countries have a right to make their own laws. What’s the use they are called independent when other countries should decide for them what their laws and punishments should be? They elect their own law makers and governments, and we must respect their laws when we go to their countries or face the music. I have no sympathy for drug dealers either they bought it on themselves. They also drag our name through the mud
Best thing is to keep away and if you need a great holiday visit St Lucia west indies where the people look like you and you will be welcomed with open arms , we have many African medical student here so you are all welcome instead of facing persecution
Pls advice them to lead a good life. Stop supporting evil. Peddling hard drug is evil. Nobody set them up.
Very stupid article. Why don’t you spend the energy you used to write this disjointed and useless post in educating your brothers who ferry drugs up and down the world giving us a bad name that money isn’t everything and not “any way na way”. Useless things.
Nigerians in foreign countries are either scammers,drug traffickers cyber criminals ,fake pastors
They are being set up by their own brothers I know pipo in Malaysia who were set up by their fellow Nigerians . its a pity
I guess ur right but when u are judging a culture u judge by the behaviour of the majority which in Nigeria people majority of them behave that way. There are good Nigerians who are well behaved when they are abroad but they are in minority
What we make me go to countries like Indonesia to live, countries that are no better than Nigeria
That is true may be settled people up why not sending them home instead of killing if they are innocent God judge Ooo
Na force dem force dem to stay?if u ar not welcome u leave
Really innocent ones…..I dont think so….when you go to a country respect their law…..in the plane when you are fly to these countries you are given a warning that drug trafficking is a death penalty offense….I know us Africa dont really take drug traffic as a seriously offense but Indonesia take it seriously…….well drug traffic is a risky business but the reward are great….so these guys are paying for their greed love of money……
If your action is suspicious, you will be arrested and investigated. If found guilty of drug trafficking, such person should be executed forthwith and they should stop tarnishing the image of our beloved country,Nigeria
Must u go to court in another man country? If u have gone there to do normal business buy and sell. Take for example u at ur home not at club will police come to arrest u? leave sentiment there is a law don’t do this and u do then u go for it period.
My people why?
This is greed upon having this kind of house , why is it that we are not contented in what god give us in our legitimate work knowing fully u are going to leave it one day, look at the house he built he has left it somebody that did not work for it will now be enjoying it,don’t u known his mad man. May his soul rest in perfect peace Amen.
why would you move to a country that hates foreigners in the first place?Indonesia is not a place to be
Simple they should leave and come back home or go somewhere else, they know this and they still stay there .. I don’t get
Where the prove that says he’s innocent???
Set up ke ?
U sit down for ur country de sell clothes for yaba no better?
U sit down for ur country de sell clothes for yaba no better?
God save us blacks