The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has described the death sentence passed on eight Nigerians in United Arab Emirate as unfortunate. Eight Nigerians were sentenced to death on Wednesday in Sharjah, UAE, for a string of robberies at money exchanges and cash machines across the emirate in December 2016. “It is an unfortunate incident, but it is not an incident that defines who we are as a people. All the convicted Nigerians were not identified by both the Gulf News and Khaleej Times, all UAE local newspapers, that reported the trial. Eight of them were sentenced to death, while the ninth person was sentenced to six-month imprisonment.

Source: Punch April 19, 2019 20:26 UTC