Gbenro Adesina/Ibadan
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has pardoned 21 convicts on the occasion of Nigeria’s 57th independence anniversary celebrations, among which one inmate got his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment.
According to a statement signed by the governor’s Special Adviser on Communication and Strategy, Mr. Yomi Layinka, the pardon was in line with the governor’s power of prerogative of mercy, pursuant to the provisions of section 212 of the 1999 Constitution, as amended.
The statement reads that seven persons were granted release from prison, having spent varying terms of their sentences, while 13 others had their death sentences reduced to a term of years, having spent considerable terms in prison.
“The records of the benefiting convicts suggest that they have undergone reforms while some of them have, while in incarceration,…
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