Friday Ejeh was
one of the inmates freed during Tuesday’s prison decongestion exercise
by the Ondo State judiciary. He was imprisoned for over eight years for a
murder committed by his brother,
The expression
on the face of Friday Ejeh was pale and although not sickly, he cut the
picture of a famished person who had gone through many years of
starvation.
Ejeh spent
eight years, nine months and four days at the Olokuta Medium Prison,
Akure, for a crime committed by his brother who is still at large....
He was awaiting
trial for charges of murder before he was freed during the prison
decongestion exercise conducted by the Ondo State Judiciary on Tuesday.
Ejeh, who hails
from Kogi State, trained as a repairer of electronic equipment and was
plying his trade in Ondo town when one morning in May 2005, some
policemen stormed his home and arrested him for the murder of a young man at a party the previous night.
Although the policemen had come to arrest his brother, they decided to arrest him when they could not get their target.
Daily manna, devotional publisher, Rev. Chris Kwakpovwe and his wife,
Pastor Mrs. Dolapo Kwakpovwe have taken a grand step forward in looking
of horns together in an explosive brawl on the true ownership of their
popular Nigerian Christian devotional book “Our Daily Manna” ODM which
was a fallout of their ongoing divorce suite on adultery against the
cleric.
