Adeleke Pardons Osun Resident Sentenced To Death For Stealing Chicken - Crime

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Adeleke pardons Osun resident sentenced to death for stealing chicken

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.

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
2. Isah Umar Biodun
3. Fawas Kareem
4. Omirin Temitayo
5. Olarenwaju Ayomide
6. Dare Sunday
7. Oladapo Tunde
8. Ganiyu Saheed
9. Adewumi Sodiq
10. Adebayo Adeoye Kehinde
11. Lasis Kazeem
12. Dauda Ojo (59 YEARS)
13. Ismaila Raji
14. Oseni Micheal
15. Ajayi Korede
16. Abiona Nurudeen
17. Oshi Samuel
18. Sheu Yusuf Olatunji
19. Ojo Aanu
20. Mustapha Kehinde
21. Lasis Abeeb
22. Alexandra Iorlaha
23. Ojo Taiwo
24. Azeez Mujeeb
25. Akinyemi David
26. Adeosun Adekunle
27. Olaobaju Samuel
28. Adura Adefemi
29. Paul Basil
30. Kunle David

Twelve inmates convicted for simple offences were granted “outright pardon”.

1. Olabomiji Nurudeen
2. Mustapha Isah
3. Olalekan Abdullahi
4. Ayomide Olojede
5. Akeem Raphael
6. Adeyemi Abiodun
7. Oladipupo Segun
8. Omisakin Sunday
9. Ademola Adio
10. Tunde Olapade
11. Late Chief Wole Ola Rufus Ojo
12. Omoloye Olajide Olayemi

Six convicts on death roll regained their freedom.

1 Oluwafemi Fagbemi
2 Bewaji Sunday
3. Amehin George
4. Ayomide Arulogun
5. Taiwo Oluwatobi Stephen
6. Abubakar Abdulazeez

Four convicts sentenced to death were granted outright pardon.

1. Sunday Morakinyo
2. Segun Olowookere
3. Tunde Olapade
4. Demola Odeyemi

https://www.thecable.ng/adeleke-pardons-osun-resident-sentenced-to-death-for-stealing-chicken/

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