Nollywood Veterans actor Nkem Owoh has painted the emotional trauma he made to survive when his brother, Bartholomew Owoh, was executed on April 10, 1985, under the military regime General Muhammadu Buhari.
Thespian who shared his pain during the new interview on TV that appeared was an interview said that the incident remained one of the most painful moments in his life.
Nkem Owoh claimed that his brother, Lawal Ojuolape, and Bernard Ogedengbe were sentenced to death for drugs related to drugs who were initially not a death sentence.
He continued by saying that he was upset because the government had changed the effective date of the decision to put those who had committed a crime before the law even existed.
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“I was working with Anambra Television at that time, and I remember walking along the corridor while crying,” he said. “The most painful thing me is how the regime shifted the effective date of the decision only to include people who committed violations before the law even existed.”
Nkem Owoh condemned the military for binding the order, claiming that punishing people because actions that were not crime at that time were unfair and emotionally annoying.
“Why did anyone change the law to punish people for actions that were not considered a crime at that time?” He questioned, still seemed affected by memory a few decades later.
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