A 101 -year- old year prisoner, Pa Celestine Egbunuche has been set free from the person by the Imo State Government.
Egbunuche, who would be 101 years on August 4, has for over 18 years lived in desolation and hopelessness within the confines of Enugu Maximum Prison.r
It was gathered that his release was one of the last actions taken by former governor Rochas Okorocha before he vacated the Douglas House, Owerri, on May 28.
The Global Society for Anti-Corruption (GSAC), a non-governmental organization (NGO), last year, petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari and Okorocha seeking pardon for the inmate.
The NGO, in letters dated September 5, 2018, and signed by its President, Franklin Ezeona, had urged that the centenarian be freed to go home and die peacefully.
South East/South South Regional Director of GSAC, Mrs. Amaka Nweke, confirmed the development yesterday, disclosing that the prison authorities in Enugu were already perfecting papers for his release any moment from now.
Pa Egbunuche hails from Akokwa in Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, and was condemned to death along with his son, Paul Egbunuche, and another relation, now 88.
They were said to have been embroiled in a land dispute in which somebody slumped and died in the process.
