Seanad debates
Thursday, 10 April 2003
Order of Business.
Mr. Leyden: The House has already expressed its condemnation to the Nigerian Government and I wish to renew this condemnation in the House and make it clear that we will take action if the Nigerian Government proceeds with the sentence against Amina Lawal. She is mothering her young child but the grossly unfair sentence still stands. As a country with very close links with Africa, Nigeria in particular, we have a moral responsibility to make sure the sentence is not carried out. I ask the Leader to use her good offices to convey this view, expressed unanimously by the House, to the Nigerian Government and the ambassador.
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