Speaking with newsmen in Ilorin, on Thursday, the lawmaker said that since death penalty was still part of Nigeria’s legal document, international agencies should back off and allow Nigeria to implement its law.
Dr Ahmad said this shortly after donating a transformer and electric poles worth about N5 million to Duma community, Oja-gboro, Ilorin, and a block of three classrooms to Isale-Asa LGEA primary school, Ilorin.
The lawmaker said that the position of the House of Representatives on the controversial issue was that, “Edo governor was right to sign the execution of the two condemned prisoners.”
Ruling out arbitrariness in the decision of the Edo State governor, Ahmad noted that the same governor had granted two condemned prisoners amnesty and commuted the sentence of one other to lifeimprisonment.
“The position of the House is that death penalty is still part of Nigeria’s law and anybody saying it should not be carried out is saying that the law of the country should not be implemented. So, on that, I disagree with them.
“On a personal note and as a lawyer, let me put a caveat that for now, I support death penalty on principle, because those who oppose it do so on principle. What they say is that death penalty is an inhuman punishment, but we disagree with them,” he said.
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