Source: Africa Publicity
US lawmaker, Riley Moore, has asked the Nigerian government to pardon Sunday Jackson, a Nigerian farmer who was sentenced to death for killing a fulani herdsman in self-defense.
While delivering remarks in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday, November 20, 2025, the Republican lawmaker described as unfair, the death sentence of Sunday.
He says “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.”
Moore added that “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?”
It would be recalled that in 2014, Sunday, a farmer, was attacked on his farm in Codonti Forest by a Fulani herdsman named Buba Bawuro. Bawuro had trespassed with his cattle in Adamawa State.
Sunday, during his trial, told the court that Bawuro pulled a knife and stabbed him multiple times during their fight.
He said in a struggle, he manged to seize the knife and fatally stabbed Bawuro in the neck.
Sunday was subsequently arrested and charged with murder.
He had argued that he acted in self-defense. But in 2021, a court in Yola sentenced him to death by hanging.
The Supreme Court of Nigeria on Friday, March 7, 2025, upheld Sunday’s death sentence.
