NIGERIA: PRISONERS AWAIT EXECUTION IN JOS

over 123 prison inmates including 39 indigenes of Benue State who are sentenced to death are said to be awaiting execution at the Federal Prison in Jos, Plateau State, Nigeria.
The officer-in-charge of the prison, Mr. F. Livinus, made this revelation when members of Benue State Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy led by the Benue Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Mr. Chive Kaave paid an official visit to the Prison on a fact finding mission.
Speaking during the visit, Mr. Kaave promised to plead on behalf of the prisoners for the state government to grant them amnesty because of their remorse and extraordinary good conduct, urging them to continue to be of good behaviour as some of them could be released by the state governor on Independence Day.