Emmanuel Uduaghan , the Governor of the Delta State, granted total pardon to Moses Akatugba who was

Emmanuel Uduaghan , the Governor of the Delta State, granted total pardon to Moses Akatugba who was sentenced to death for stealing three phones. Aside granting total pardon to Moses, Governor Uduaghan also commute death sentences of three others to various terms of imprisonment. Amnesty International has been championing for the Moses Akatugba’s release who was 16-year-old when, in 2005, he was awaiting the results of his secondary school exams and his life changed forever. He was arrested by the Nigerian army and shot in the hand, beaten on the head and back, and then charged with stealing mobile phones. He was initially held at the local army barracks where, he says, soldiers showed him a corpse. He couldn’t identify the dead man, so they beat him. After being transferred to Epkan police station in Delta State, Moses was tortured again. He said that the police beat him severely with machetes and batons, tied him up and hung him for several hours in interrogation rooms, and used pliers to pull out his finger and toe nails to force him to sign two ‘confessions’ – which formed the sole basis of his conviction in 2013.