Details about Sing’Oi’s telephone call with Vietnam Hang counterpart

The main secretary of foreign affairs, Korir Sing’oei, held a telephone conversation with his Vietnam counterpart on Margaret Nduta on Sunday, a Kenian who is experiencing execution in Vietnam.

PS said that Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam, Nguyen Minh, assured him that the petition in Kenya is considered.

Single said Kenya requested earlier an execution to allow the two countries to find a way to solve the problem.

“I had a telephone conversation this afternoon with my counterpart, Nguyen Minh Hang, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Vietnam, for Margaret Nduta. I sent Madam Hanga the anxiety of the Kenian people regarding the imminent execution of our national and we reiterated our request for an execution stay to allow the two countries to find a way to solve the problem, ”said Sing’Oi.

“I am grateful for the assurance of Mrs. Hang that our petition is considered by the authorities of his country.”

Sing’oei said that, meanwhile, the mission in Bankok actively follows the case in situ.

The efforts of the government mark the first official response to increasing appeals for diplomatic intervention following the death sentence for drug trafficking.

“The case of Nduta is complex and difficult, but we do everything in our means to ensure a redemption for our national,” Single said in a post on X Sunday.

He responded to an open letter from Senator Kisii, Richard Onyonka, who resorted to President William Ruto to intervene and save Nduta, who was supposed to be just a few hours away from execution.

In his letter on March 14, Onyonka asked Ruto to seek clemency and repatriation for Nduta. Kenyan, 37, was sentenced to death in Vietnam, under drug trafficking and was scheduled for execution on Sunday.

While he recognized the judicial sovereignty of Vietnam, he asked President Ruto to hire the Vietnamese government, the United Nations and international human rights organizations to provide a more permitting sentence or to facilitate his transfer to Kenya.

“This scary development requires urgent diplomatic intervention to protect its fundamental rights and to explore the possibility of clemency and repatriation,” wrote Onyonka.