Former state governors convicted of money laundering and corruption did not benefit from the presidential amnesty granted to 2,600 inmates nationwide because they did not meet the requirements, Saturday PUNCH has learnt.

It was gathered that the former governors were not considered for a reprieve because they were convicted of corruption and money laundering aside from the fact that they did not meet some of the criteria stipulated by the Presidential Advisory Committee on Prerogative of Mercy, which advised the President on inmates and ex-convicts deserving pardon.
There had been speculations that high-profile persons, including ex-governors serving various jail terms at the Kuje Custodial Centre, Abuja and other prison facilities might benefit from the pardon announced in Abuja on Thursday, by the Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola.

Prominent persons serving various jail terms include former governors of Abia and Plateau states, Senator Orji Kalu and Joshua Dariye; former governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame; and a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh.

While Kalu, a serving All Progressives Congress senator, was convicted of N7.1bn money laundering and jailed for 12 years in 2019, Dariye, who was a former senator representing Plateau central district, was jailed for 16 years for N1.126bn fraud in 2018.

Nyame, who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, was convicted and jailed for 14 years for diverting N1.64bn during his tenure as governor of Taraba State between 1999 and 2007.

Metuh is serving a seven-year jail term for illegally receiving N400m from the office of the national security adviser. He was sentenced by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, in February.


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What were the thieving perfectionists thinking?

Abeg, make dem add small Garri join their watery beans jare

It would have made a mess of d whole exercise

This would have made it very clear that the fight against corruption was a scam. Imagine such thought of even pardoning such criminals . Rehabilating bokoharam members is already an evil many of us are weeping over, pardoning a set of thieves would of done more damage to the already battered image of this administration, the president deserve to put to jail all the people who made the suggestion to him, he should know that they are his enemies, if he didn't know before now.

punch again

They are all looters, the only thing that can qualify them is by remitting the left over of their embezzlement to the masses as relief directly to the public during this lockdown.
Please I need your support, I have a family with my wife pregnant and at heavy stage. At the moment we find it hard to feed ourself with the lockdown. I couldn't cry to anyone but to the public. Hunger is about to finish us please.
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May you be rewarded abundantly

If They Are Pardond that means crime is free for all politicians in Nigeria.

Sahara Reporters, lied again. Source said this source said that. They write fiction out of the heart of malice.