December 26,2024
By Idris Buba
Governor Ademola Adeleke, has pardoned Segun Olowookere, who was sentenced to death at the age of 17 years in 2014 for stealing a fowl in Osun State
Gov Adeleke who disclosed this in a statement on X on Thursday, said Olowookere was pardoned alongside his accomplice, Sunday Morakinyo.
The governor disclosed that 51 other inmates were also pardoned following recommendations of the State Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy.
He said “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.”
“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 inmates convicted of simple offences.
“In the case of the following 6 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 years imprisonment having already spent at least 10 years in custody.
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“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 Morakinyo were arrested in 2010 for breaking into the homes of a police officer and another person where they allegedly stole fowl and eggs.
They were sentenced to death by hanging In 2014,by Justice Falola of the Osun State High Court after they were found guilty of breaking into the officer’s house and stealing his property.
