Photos: 4 Nigerians About To Be Executed In Indonesia In 72 hours

Indonesia’s attorney general’s office has notified nine foreigners, including four Nigerians, and an Indonesian convicted of drug trafficking that their executions will be carried out within days.

Spokesman Tony Spontana says the ten convicts were moved to isolation cells on Saturday and given a 72-hour execution notice. It indicates they will face the firing squad at the earliest on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The executions will take place in Besi prison on Nusakambangan Island.

 The foreigners are four Nigerian men, two Australian men, a Filipino woman, and one man each from Brazil and France.

However, the French man Serge Atlaoui is still awaiting a legal appeal over the procedure in his request for clemency.

The planned executions have triggered an international outcry, but Indonesia insists the punishment is part of the country’s “drugs emergency.” – AP

Below are their pictures arranged in this order (Silvester Obiekwe Nwolise, 47, Raheem Agbaje Salami, Okwudili Oyatanze, Martin Anderson, 50):


Sylvester Obiekwe Nwolise

Nwolise was born on 7 July 1965. He was sentenced to death in September 2004 by a court in Tangerang. His clemency appeal was rejected in February.

The court found him guilty of trafficking 2.6lb of heroin via Sukarno Hatta Airport in Jakarta in 2002.

In January 2015 the Indonesian National Narcotics Body said that Sylvester was running a drugs ring in Nusakambangan jail, where he is being held.

 Jamiu Owolabi Abashin


He is believed to be Jamiu Owolabi Abashin, but entered Indonesia using a Spanish passport with the name Raheem Agbaje Salami.

Salami was caught with 11lb of heroin inside his suitcase in Surabaya airport on 2 September 1998.
A court in Surabaya gave him a life sentence in April 1999, which was reduced by the High Court to 20 years.
Salami appealed and the Supreme Court gave him a death sentence. His clemencyapplication was rejected on 5 January 2015.
He tried to challenge the rejection of his clemency but the challenge failed and he is in the process of an appeal.

 Okwudili Oyatanze

Oyatanze is a 45-year-old Nigerian citizen, and was given the death sentence by the Tangerang court for trafficking 2.4lb of heroin through Sukarno Hatta airport in 2001.
His clemency was rejected in February 2015.

 Martin Anderson

He was arrested in Jakarta in 2003, and a court gave him the death penalty. His clemency was rejected in January 2015.

There is some confusion about Anderson’s nationality. A spokesman for Indonesia’s attorney-general said he is Nigerian but Nigeria’s NDLEA said he is a Ghanaian citizen who was born in London in 1964.
He was arrested in Jakarta in 2003 and sentenced to death.