The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has explained why a Nigerian woman, Kudirat Adesola Afolabi was executed.
The Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Abuja said in a statement that all legal and judicial proceedings before the execution of Nigerian national of Kudirat were observed.
“All convicted persons on whom the death penalty has been carried out in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have gone through trials characterized by legal guarantee of justice to their case because the Kingdom’s judicial system is established on objectivity and is dependent, in terms of its rules and regulations, on the Islamic Law, which has always restored rights to their owners and done justice to the victims. This is what the Kingdom has always affirmed,” the statement read.
The Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had revealed that the mission in Saudi Arabia was not contacted before the decision to execute Kudirat was made, but only invited to the execution on April 1st.
The Embassy, however, said the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia would continue to enforce the penalties as per the drug trafficking law, to combat the menace and protect its citizens from it.