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The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has said that the move by the Nigerian Senate to give capital punishment to drug trafficking offenders may add little or nothing to reducing the crime. Country Representative, UNODC, Oliver Stolpe, gave the verdict at a two-day media personnel training on anti-corruption, police accountability, wildlife crime, and sensitization on drugs prevention, treatment, and care (DPTC), organized by the UNODC, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), and other partners, on Tuesday in Abuja. He said, “The deterrent effect of the death penalty has n…

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