President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has granted presidential prerogative of mercy to one of Nigeria’s founding fathers, Herbert Macaulay and 174 others across various categories.
This comes after a presentation by the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, who conveyed President Bola Tinubu’s recommendations based on the report of the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy on Thursday at the Council of State meeting held at the State House, Abuja.
According to reports that Macaulay, often called the “father of Nigerian nationalism,” was twice convicted by the colonial authorities in Lagos.
In 1913, while in private practice as a surveyor, he was reportedly tried for misappropriating funds from an estate he administered and sentenced to prison; historians have long debated the fairness of that prosecution.
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