The Saudi Arabian government has announced that 23 Nigerians will be executed to death over drug-related offenses.
According to the government in a statement on Saturday, the suspects were arrested between 2016 and 2017 at King Abdul-Aziz International Airport, Jeddah, and Prince Muhammad Bin Abdu-Aziz International Airport, Madinah.
Okay.ng understands that they were said to have concealed the narcotic substance in their rectum, an act the Saudi Government says contravenes its narcotic and psychotropic substances rules.
The offence is punishable by death.
