The President of Equatorial Guinea, Mr. Obiang Nguema has given a strong hint that the judicial measure of death sentence would soon be abolished after its last implementation in 2014.
The abolition is premised not on the years of advocacy by human rights groups but from pressure by a political bloc that the country belongs to, the Community of Portuguese Language Countries, CPLP.
President Nguema’s assurance on the decision to abolish was announced during a visit to Cape Verde where he said the abolition of death sentence was all but done though he only wanted the process to be democratic.
The death sentence, which remains on the books of most African countries though hardly implemented, has persons slapped with it commuted to life imprisonment.
A recent report noted that only five African countries of Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan and Botswana carried out the measure in 2018.
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