{"id":48288,"date":"2016-04-07T16:03:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=48288"},"modified":"2016-04-07T16:03:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T15:03:47","slug":"nigerias-agf-ignorant-death-penalty-terrorists-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/articles-opinions\/nigerias-agf-ignorant-death-penalty-terrorists-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s AGF &#8220;Ignorant Of&#8221; Death Penalty For Terrorists Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0frustration\u00a0on why Nigeria could possibly continue\u00a0to fail to give death sentences to murderous Boko Haram terrorists while it sentences robbers and others to death, was\u00a0cemented\u00a0today as the Attorney General of the federation denied the prescription of death\u00a0for murderous\u00a0terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>As reported in the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2016\/04\/cant-execute-boko-haram-convicts-agf\/\">news<\/a>,\u00a0Mallam Abubakar Malami, the AGF\u00a0told Amnesty International guests that &#8220;convicted members of the Boko Haram sect in the country could not be executed because the laws under which they were tried did not prescribe death sentence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is\u00a0criminally perplexing to realize that Nigeria&#8217;s young AGF does not know the law or chooses to disregard it to selectively &#8220;protect&#8221; Takfiri Boko Haram terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unodc.org\/tldb\/pdf\/Nigeria\/NIR_Terror_Prevent_2011.pdf\">Terrorism Prevention Act<\/a>\u00a0of 2011 as amended in 2013, Part 1, subsection 4 states:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(2) without prejudice to sub-section (2) of this section, where death results from any terrorist act, the penalty shall be death sentence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is explicitly stated: death for terrorists who kill.<\/p>\n<p>In February of 2013 a Senate session unanimously resolved on the\u00a0&#8220;Bill for an Act to amend the Terrorism (prevention) Act, 2012,\u201d brought forward by its Conference Committee during plenary, that there was no alternative to punishing terrorism offenders than death. [See\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2013\/02\/senate-okays-death-penalty-for-terrorists\/\">Vanguard<\/a>, February 20, 2013:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2013\/02\/senate-okays-death-penalty-for-terrorists\/\">Senate okays death penalty for terrorists<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>While Nigeria&#8217;s armed forces has demonstrated its willingness to act pre-meditatively on several occasions, as the new primary law enforces ahead of the police, in Abia\u00a0and\u00a0Zaria,\u00a0assuming the role of judge, jury and executioner,\u00a0granting immediate death sentences to Nigerian protesting and praying youth, it is perplexing to see that the Attorney General of the federation expected to intervene with immediate probes in cases of suspected actual violations, rather positions himself selectively in protection of Boko Haram terrorists in clear violation of Nigeria&#8217;s laws.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is making camps for &#8220;repentant&#8221; Boko Haram terrorists. Under the AGF and the current heads of Security, with the above thinking, will terrorists who have killed human beings be not only spared death in violation of the law of the land and laws of God, but even be released to walk among regular people?<\/p>\n<p>Who can call the AGF to order?<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Peregrino Brimah; @EveryNigerian<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0frustration\u00a0on why Nigeria could possibly continue\u00a0to fail to give death sentences to murderous Boko Haram terrorists while it sentences robbers and others to death, was\u00a0cemented\u00a0today as the Attorney General of&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles-opinions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria&#039;s AGF &quot;Ignorant Of&quot; 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