Presidency Releases Full List Of Those Pardoned, Reverses Self On Mayram Sanda

Posted by Rotimi Fadeyi Featured, Latest Headlines, News Across Nigeria Thursday, October 30th, 2025

(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – The Presidency connected Wednesday released the afloat database of those that benefited from President Bola Tinubu’s prerogative of mercy and pardon.

According to the list, Maryam Sanda, who was sentenced to decease for sidesplitting her husband, Biliaminu Mohammed would present walk 64 months much successful prison.

Sanda’s decease condemnation was commuted to 12 years connected compassionate grounds, successful the champion involvement of the children and bully conduct, embraced a caller lifestyle, exemplary captive and remorsefulness.”

Sanda who was sentenced to decease by hanging  connected January 27, 2020 has already served six years and 8 months astatine the Medium Security Custodial Centre (MSCC), Suleja.

Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga earlier successful a property merchandise said the President has executed the applicable instruments of merchandise to implicit the process of formally exercising his law powerfulness of prerogative of mercy to assistance pardon and clemency to circumstantial individuals who were earlier convicted for assorted offences.

 He stated that “following consultations with the Council of State and nationalist sentiment connected the matter, the President directed a further reappraisal of the initially approved database for information successful furtherance of the President’s discretionary powers nether Section 175 (1)(&(2) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

 Consequently, definite persons convicted of superior crimes specified arsenic kidnapping, drug-related offences, quality trafficking, fraud, unlawful possession of firearms/arms dealing, etc, were deleted from the list. Others who had been hitherto pardoned successful the aged database had their sentences commuted”, helium added.

 According to him, the enactment became indispensable successful presumption of the seriousness and information implications of immoderate of the offences, the request to beryllium delicate to the feelings of the victims of the crimes and nine successful general, the request to boost the morale of instrumentality enforcement agencies and adherence to bilateral obligations. The conception of justness arsenic a three-way postulation for the Accused, the Victim, and the State/Society besides guided the review.

 Onanuga said the approved database of eligible beneficiaries has been transmitted to the Nigerian Correctional Service for implementation successful enactment with the duly signed instruments of release.

 Furthermore, to guarantee that aboriginal exercises conscionable nationalist expectations and champion practices, the President has directed the contiguous relocation of the Secretariat of the Presidential Advisory Committee connected Prerogative of Mercy from the Federal Ministry of Special Duties to the Federal Ministry of Justice.

 He said Tinubu besides directed the Attorney-General of the Federation to contented ...