Indonesia Executes Nigerian Drug Convict Daniel Enemuo (Photos)

38 year-old Nigerian Daniel Enemuo, has been executed in Indonesia after he was convicted on drug charges.

The execution — the first under Indonesia’s new President Joko Widodo — was carried out by a firing squad on Daniel alongside 4 other foreigners from Brazil, the Netherlands, Vietnam and Malawi and a local woman earlier on today at around midnight,  despite international appeals to spare
them.

 "The execution of the six convicts has been carried out,"  spokesman for the attorney general's office, Tony Spontana, told news agency AFP.

Defending their action, the government said the action was necessary to combat the rising drug trade in their country.

"What we do is merely aimed at protecting our nation from the danger of drugs. There is no excuse for drug dealers, and hopefully this will have a deterrent effect."

Ambulances carrying the bodies of  the dead drug convicts  (AP Photo/Wagino)

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff had issued a last-minute plea to Indonesian authorities to spare former pilot Marco Moreira. It was rejected by Indonesian President Joko Widodo who said the judicial proceedings had followed Indonesian law. 

The Dutch government had issued a similar appeal for its citizen Ang Kiem Soei.

Clemency appeals for the pair, as well as Namaona Denis of Malawi, Daniel Enemuo of Nigeria, and female convict Tran Thi Bich Hanh of Vietnam were rejected in December. All six had been sentenced on drug charges from 2000 to 2011.

Five of the convicts were killed on Nusakambangan Island, off the south coast of the Indonesian island of Java. The sixth was killed in Java's Boyolali district. They were the first executions carried out since President Widodo took office in October.

Brazil and the Netherlands have recalled their ambassadors from Indonesia in the wake of the executions.

An ambulance carrying the coffin containing the body of drug convict Malawian national Namaona Denis