Mr. Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Arbitrary or Summary Execution, has said actions including communication to the government of President Jonathan is being considered as regards the death sentence passed on 54 Nigerian soldiers.
This statement is a reaction to a petition written to the UN by Socia-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, in December 2014. In the petition, the group asked the UN to individually and jointly use their ''good office and positions to urgently request the Nigerian government and its military authorities not to carry out the death sentences passed on the 54 soldiers.
Mr. Adetokunbo Mumuni, SERAP Executive Director stated that SERAP welcomes the decision by Mr. Christof Heyns to intervene on the matter given his longstanding human rights commitment and activities, ''we have absolute no doubt that Mr. Heyns will work assiduously to ensure that justice is done in the matter and we wish him well as he strives to do that.''
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