Says: Release my son, his incarceration painful
Human rights lawyer, Banire wants case revisited
Farouk Abdul-Mutallab’s father, Alhaji Umaru Abdul-Mutallab has urged the authorities in the United State and Nigeria to revisit the life sentences handed unto his son.
Having spent a decade in solitary confinement, Abdul Mutallab, who is the chairman of Jaiz Bank, believes his son who has been kept incommunicado would have been remorseful.
Faruk known as the “Underwear Bomber”, convicted and handed multiple life sentences in the US. for attempting to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan, on Christmas Day, 2009. He was sentenced to four life terms plus 50 years without parole and incarcerated at ADX Florence, the Supermax Federal Prison in Colorado, United States.
His father, Abdul-Mutallab spoke at the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Yaba, Lagos office during…
