by Christiana Gokyo, Jos
Five inmates, including a female, from various correctional centers in Adamawa State have been granted pardon by the governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri.
The governor on the visit, having gone through the records of the inmates commuted two death sentences to life imprisonment.
A statement, signed and issued to newsmen by the Press Secretary, Humwashi Wunosikau, indicated that the pardon is within Yola and Numau correctional centers.
The pardoned inmates include: Ali Abdul, Mohammed Goni, and Hapsatu Idi, from Yola Old Correctional Centre; Buba Usman Mai, from Numan Correctional Centre as Yusuf Ali and Babala Benson from Yola New Correctional Facility.
The governor “additionally commuted the death sentences of two convicts, Usman Inuwa and Joseph Eugene, to life imprisonment. Both are serving at Yola New Correctional Centre.”
“Governor Fintiri’s action was “based on the advice of the Advisory Committee on Prerogative of Mercy and the powers conferred on him by Section 212(i) (d) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, as amended,” the statement added.
According to Governor Fintiri, “The release of the five inmates and the commutation of the two death sentences to life imprisonment take immediate effect, as all legal formalities have been concluded with the correctional institutions.”