Gov secures release of generator dealer, two others after 26 years on death row
A power generator vendor, Ogbonnaya Igbojionu, and two completely different Nigerian voters absorb regained freedom after spending 26 years on demise row at a correctional facility, following the intervention of Abia Sigh Governor, Dr Alex Otti.
Igbojionu, who hails from Ikwuano Native Council of Abia Sigh, was once arrested in 1999 and sentenced to demise in 2003 over allegations that he bought a stolen generator.
Presenting the launched contributors to Governor Otti on Saturday, Simon Oshi, an indigene of Enugu Sigh who facilitated the intervention, acknowledged he learnt of the case thru a social media influencer, Olumide Ogunsanwo, popularly is smartly-known as “Sea King”.
Oshi defined that he visited Kirikiri Jail alongside the influencer and a neighborhood of attorneys, the put they chanced on that Igbojionu was once from Abia Sigh. He acknowledged that after informing Governor Otti, the Governor verified the topic with the Criminal professional Same old of the teach and took swift dash to salvage their release.
Receiving the freed contributors—Ogbonnaya Igbojionu, Olawale Adediji, and yet another inmate who couldn't be a part of them on the skedaddle to Abia—Governor Otti thanked Oshi and Ogunsanwo for his or her vigilance and persistence within the topic.
He also expressed gratitude to his Ogun Sigh counterpart, Governor Dapo Abiodun, for his enhance in facilitating the discharge of the inmates. Otti assured the freed men of the teach’s commitment to supporting their reintegration into society. He directed the Commissioner for Native Authorities and his counterpart within the Ministry of Energy and Public Utilities to liaise with associated departments to make certain that the used inmates receive the assistance they must soar abet to existence.
Narrating his ordeal, Igbojionu defined that as a generator vendor, he bought a unit from one Segun Ajibade in 1999 and later bought it. Two weeks after the transaction, the vendor returned with police officers who, in accordance with Igbojionu, beat him and pressured him to worth a written assertion with out discovering out it.
He was once later arraigned and sentenced to demise in 2003, spending 26 years in detention except his release in 2025. He thanked God for sparing his existence and liked Governor Otti for his wisely timed intervention.
