British colonialists conviction: Nigerian government pardons Herbert Macaulay 79 years after death
The Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has pardoned late Herbert Macaulay, a Nigerian nationalist who in 1913 was convicted by the British colonialists and banned from public office, but later died in 1946
Penpushing reports that Macaulay, a Nigerian was a co-founder, National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC), along with Nnamdi Azikiwe and the Cameroons (NCNC), and he(Macaulay) was the party’s first president, which played a pivotal role in Nigeria’s struggle for independence
The conviction of Macaulay by the British colonialists was believed to be unjust while the stigma of being an ex-convict was not exorcised from his records until now when Tinubu granted a posthumous pardon to him.
Penpushing further reports that other beneficiaries of the pardon include late Major General Mamman Jiya Vatsa, who sentenced to death over a treason charge in 1986, by the administration of General Ibrahim Babangida(rtd)
The pardon for Macaulay and Vatsa as well as other fifteen beneficiaries followed recommendations of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy (PACPM), and endorsement of the National Council of State, which met in Abuja on Thursday.
Penpushing also reports that Tinubu equally pardoned four former convicts, including former House of Representatives member, Farouk Lawan, Anastasia Nwaobia, Hussaini Umar and Ayinla Alanamu.
The statement said they were pardoned to enable them to integrate into society, having demonstrated sufficient remorse., adding that Nweke Chibueze, serving a life sentence for cocaine, was pardoned, along with Nwogu Peters, who had served 12 out of his 17-year sentence for fraud.
Penpushing reports that the Ogoni Nine: Ken Saro Wiwa, Saturday Dobee, Nordu Eawo, Daniel Gbooko, Paul Levera, Felix Nuate, Baribor Bera, Barinem Kiobel and John Kpuine were formally pardoned.
The Nigeria’s President at the same time awarded national honours to the Ogoni Four- which include Albert Badey, Edward Kobani, Samuel Orage, and Theophilus Orage, and in exercising his constitutional power of mercy, granted clemency to 82 inmates and reduced the prison terms of 65 others, and gave a reprieve for seven inmates on the death row by commuting their sentences to life imprisonment
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