26th December 2024, NewsOrient, News, Law And Society

Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, has pardoned Segun Olowookere who was sentenced to death for robbing a fowl.

A report in Channels Television quoted a statement on X on Thursday as saying
“Olowookere was pardoned alongside his accomplice, Sunday Morakinyo.”

NewsOrient reports that when the news was first made public that the two defendants were sentenced to death for stealing a fowl, the report went viral on social media.

But Osun State Judiciary has clarified that the defendants “were convicted for armed robbery, including robbing a poultry in 2010.”

In line with the recommendations of the State Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy and in exercise of the power conferred on me by paragraph (a), (c) and (d) of subsection (i) of section 212 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (As Amended), I am pleased to extend my grace and mercy unto 53 convicts serving various convictions within the Nigerian Correctional Service,” Adeleke said.

“In the case of inmates convicted of simple offences, I have decided in accordance with the said recommendation to remit and forgive the remainder of the said sentences of the following 30 (thirty ) inmates in whole.

“I have also decided in accordance with the said recommendation to grant outright pardon to the following 12 (twelve) inmates convicted of simple offences.

“In the case of the following 6 (six) convicts sentenced to death, I have approved the commutation of their sentence from death to outright release while Ojekunle Timothy has his sentence commuted from death sentence to 15 (Fifteen) years imprisonment having spent at least 10 (ten) years in custody.

The following 4 (four) convicts also have their sentences commuted from death sentence to outright pardon: Sunday Morakinyo, Segun Olowookere, Tunde Olapade, Demola Odeyemi.”

Olowookere and his accomplice were arrested in 2010 for breaking into the homes of a police officer and another person.”

Photo Credit/Source: Channels Television

~ NewsOrient

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