The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has disclosed that the Office of the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary or Summary Executions, led by Mr. Christof Heyns has stated that “appropriate action including communication to the government of President Goodluck Jonathan is being considered regarding the 54 soldiers recently sentenced to death in Nigeria.”
This is sequel to a petition submitted to Mr Heyns by SERAP in December 2014 in which the group asked five UN human rights independent experts to individually and jointly use their “good offices and positions to urgently request the Nigerian government and its military authorities not to carry out the death sentences imposed on the 54 Nigerian soldiers for what the government claimed was disobedience to a direct order from their commanding officer.” (Photo credit: News Express).