The Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, has granted pardon to 16 inmates of the correctional facilities in the state to commemorate the country’s 62nd independence anniversary, IgbereTV reports
The state’s Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Sir Charles Titiloye, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday.
He said the gesture was in line with the power conferred on the governor by paragraphs (a) (c) and (d) of Subsection (1) of Section 212, of the 1999 Constitution