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| Femi Falana (SAN) |
Respected/Activist
Nigerian lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), yesterday petitioned President
Muhammadu Buhari, asking him to grant presidential pardon for the 70 soldiers
who are serving different jail terms in Lagos Ikoyi and the Kirikiri Prisons.
The silk, in a letter dated
December 19 said his request was in line with the provisions of Section 175 of
the Constitution.
The letter reads in part: “We
are counsel to the 70 soldiers who are currently held in custody at the Ikoyi
and Kirikiri Prisons in Lagos State. “We have the instructions of our clients
to write this letter of appeal to Your Excellency.
“Our clients were charged with
mutiny before court-martial for demanding weapons to fight the well-equipped
insurgents in the north east zone.
In a bid to divert attention
of the public from the criminal diversion of the huge fund earmarked for
procurement of arms and ammunition to fight the terrorists, out clients were
convicted and sentenced to death by the court-martial which tried them in
2014.”
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