– Lalong granted absolute pardon to one Calistus Mozie, who was serving a life sentence – The governor says the pardon is granted for reasons of good conduct and determination to continue to be productive, from the day Mozie was sentenced Governor Simon Lalong of Plateau and his deputy, Sonni Tyoden on Wednesday, May 29, took their second term oaths of office, with the governor granting absolute pardon to one Calistus Mozie, who was serving a life sentence. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the oath was administered on the prisoner by the state’s chief judge, Justice Yakubu Dakwak.

Lalong, in a speech shortly after taking the oath of office, said that the pardon granted the convict was in exercise of the powers conferred on him as governor in Section 212 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended). “This is as a mark of our appreciation and thanksgiving to God for the guidance, protection and successes recorded. “After due consultation with the State Advisory Council on Prerogative of Mercy, I have granted prerogative of mercy to one prisoner, Evaristus Mozie, from life imprisonment to absolute pardon.

He said: “On that special day, I shall unveil the vision and programmes of the government for the 2019 to 2023 period, in a Town Hall Meeting. “This will be followed by a panel discussion on democracy in Plateau from 2015 to 2019, and the way forward in the next four years.” The governor promised to consolidate on the gains and achievements so far recorded, adding that priorities would be carefully streamlined in the light of increasing demands. He added that his administration would review and fine-tune some of the policy thrusts of the last four years to make them more result-oriented. Lalong further stated that the new administration would inject new ideas and philosophical paradigm into governance.

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Lalong pardons prisoner as he takes oath of office