Today in History: Barth Owoh Was
Executed By Gen. Buhari
April 10, 1985: Bartholomew Owoh, Bernard Ogedengbe and Lawal Ojuolape, were k! lled by fi ring squad at Kirikiri shooting range in Lagos. General Buhari gave the order.
What was their crime?Barth Owoh, 26, Bernard Ogedengbe, 29, and Lawal Ojuolape, 30, were all arrested from April to May 1984 for pedd_ling drugs. The crime was then bailable and not punishable by death.
The Buhari regime backdated a de.. ath penalty decree to have three of them executed at all costs
Coincidentally, three of them were southerners. They were kil..led for a crime that did not carry the de.ath penalty at the time of the offence.
It’ll be recalled that Buhari, while he was the military Head of State promulgated a decree prescribing de.ath penalty for anyone caught for drug traf_ficking.
But the trio of Barth, Ben and Lawal committed the offence before Buhari came into power.
The laws of Nigeria at the time the offence was comm-itted did not prescribe the death penalty.
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