Ademola Adeleke, governor of Osun, has pardoned Segun Olowookere, who was sentenced to death by hanging for stealing a chicken and eggs in 2010.
In a statement released on Thursday, Adeleke gave the prerogative of mercy to 53 convicts, including Olowookere.
Olowookere’s co-defendant, Sunday Morakinyo, was also granted a pardon by the governor.
Olowookere’s story went viral recently, and it sparked public outcry after an interview granted by his parents.
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In an interview with Biola Adebayo, a Nigerian actress, the parents claimed that police officers from the Osun command arrested Olowookere for an offence he did not commit.
Olanrewaju, his father, said a divisional police officer (DPO) asked him to pay N30,000 for his son’s rerelease, noting that he could only raise N20,000 at the time.
Olowookere’s parents had appealed to Nigerians to help intervene in their son’s ordeal.
Following the viral video, Adeleke directed the attorney-general and commissioner for justice in Osun to commence a full probe into the matter.
THE CASE
In 2010, Olowookere and Morakinyo were arraigned over alleged armed robbery.
They were said to have been arrested while robbing a poultry farm. Arms were reportedly recovered from them.
In December 2014, they were sentenced to death by hanging.
In Osun, the offence of armed robbery had a mandatory punishment of death by hanging.
FULL LIST OF THOSE GRANTED PARDON
Adeleke remitted the remainder of sentences of 30 inmates convicted for simple offences.
1.Olubo Sunday
Isah Umar Biodun
Fawas Kareem
Omirin Temitayo
Olarenwaju Ayomide
Dare Sunday
Oladapo Tunde
Ganiyu Saheed
Adewumi Sodiq
Adebayo Adeoye Kehinde
Lasis Kazeem
Dauda Ojo (59 YEARS)
Ismaila Raji
Oseni Micheal
Ajayi Korede
Abiona Nurudeen
Oshi Samuel
Sheu Yusuf Olatunji
Ojo Aanu
Mustapha Kehinde
Lasis Abeeb
Alexandra Iorlaha
Ojo Taiwo
Azeez Mujeeb
Akinyemi David
Adeosun Adekunle
Olaobaju Samuel
Adura Adefemi
Paul Basil
Kunle David
Twelve inmates convicted for simple offences were granted “outright pardon”.
Olabomiji Nurudeen
Mustapha Isah
Olalekan Abdullahi
Ayomide Olojede
Akeem Raphael
Adeyemi Abiodun
Oladipupo Segun
Omisakin Sunday
Ademola Adio
Tunde Olapade
Late Chief Wole Ola Rufus Ojo
Omoloye Olajide Olayemi
Six convicts on death roll regained their freedom.
1 Oluwafemi Fagbemi
2 Bewaji Sunday
Amehin George
Ayomide Arulogun
Taiwo Oluwatobi Stephen
Abubakar Abdulazeez
Four convicts sentenced to death were granted outright pardon.
Sunday Morakinyo
Segun Olowookere
Tunde Olapade
Demola Odeyemi
