Presidential amnesty has been granted to twenty-nine of the 30 Nigerians deported from Thailand for drug related offences.

Presidential amnesty has been granted to twenty-nine of the 30 Nigerians deported from Thailand for drug related offences. They have been released from the Nigeria Prison service. They were amongst 57 Nigerians serving jail terms in Thailand after their convictions for drug related offences and had been sent to Nigeria prison in 2005.They were all males between ages 35 and 50 and embraced their friends and familywho were waiting outside the prison gates shouting “I have regained freedom.”
The Deputy Comptroller of Prison Ijebu Ode Command said their release was facilitated by the Osile Oke-Ona, Oba Adedapo Tejuosho and Evangelist Kayode Williams who sent letters to the presidency and Ministers of Interior over the plight of the prison inmates.He also explained that the inmates were given some rehabilitation programmes such as furniture making, tailoring, barbing, computer education, sports and religious matters and they have been properly rehabilitated and are now fit for society and some of them are even ‘born again’ Christians, who can help to preach against drug trafficking in the country.