A statement signed by the chief secretary to the Ondo State Governor,Segun Ajiboye said the Ondo state Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu has granted amnesty to 28 inmates of the Federal Correctional Custodial Centres as the power is conferred on the Governor by Paragraph (d) of sub-section (1) of Section 212 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as Amended.
This gesture is said to be in commemoration of this year’s Democracy Day on June 12, 2020.
13 inmates serving various terms of imprisonment were pardoned having served substantial portions of their sentences.
In the same vein, the ten (10) condemned inmates had been duly convicted and sentenced to death by hanging.
Source: TVC News