‘He’s only trying to defend himself’ – US lawmaker Moore seeks pardon for Jackson

A US member of the House of Representatives, Riley Moore, has urged the Nigerian government to pardon a farmer, Sunday Jackson, who was sentenced to death for killing an attacker while trying to defend himself.

Moore made this appeal on Thursday at the US House of Representatives’ hearing on President Donald Trump’s redesignation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern, CPC.

According to him, the verdict convicting Jackson was unfair.

“I would urge the Nigerian government to take a look at pardoning Sunday Jackson, who is an individual who was fighting for his own life, defending his life against one of these Fulani militants.

“That Fulani militant lost his life in that struggle, and now that person, Sunday Jackson, is facing the death penalty. Where is the justice in that?” he asked.