Oshiomhole vows to sign condemned inmates’ death warrants

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State said he would sign the death warrants of convicts who killed their victims.

Oshiomhole gave this assurance in Benin on Thursday when members of the Conference of Non-Governmental Organisations (CONGOs) paid him a courtesy visit.


“There are seven convicts whose cases are being reviewed. I will sign the death warrant of any of them, especially kidnappers, found to have killed any of their victims.

“I believe that those who killed by the sword should also die by the sword, “the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the governor as saying during the visit.

Oshiomhole said that signing convicts’ death warrants was a signal to other criminals that the state was a wrong place for criminal activities.

He said the non-execution of convicted criminals in the last 15 to 20 years had not led to reduction in criminality in the state.

He, however, said the government was proposing to the state legislature that if kidnappers released their victims unharmed and without raping them, such kidnappers should be given life imprisonment.

Oshiomhole also said that if the need arose, the Edo Government would make law to protect the girl-child from underage marriage.