Delta State Celebrates Nigeria's 54th Independence - Pics

Nigeria was 54 years old yesterday Wednesday October 1,2014.

Here are pics from Delta state celebrating that day in colours...and hey,the governor even pardoned Prisoners Waiting Hang-mans Noose.

Independence Day: Uduaghan Pardons Prisoners Waiting Hang-mans Noose

AS Nigerians celebrate 54 years of independence, the Governor of Delta State, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan has granted total pardon to three prisoners sentenced to death and commuted the death sentence of nine others to various terms of imprisonment.

Speaking on Wednesday at a colourful celebration to mark the Independence Day in Asaba, the state capital, Governor Uduaghan said the pardon of the prisoners was based on recommendations from the State Advisory Council on the Prerogative of Mercy.

According to him, "as part of the independence Day celebration, through the power conferred on me under section 212 of the Nigerian Constitution and based on the recommendation from the State Advisory Council of the Prerogative of Mercy, I have granted total pardon to three prisoners sentenced to death and granted amnesty to nine other prisoners on death row whose sentences have now been commuted to various terms of imprisonment."

Governor Uduaghan disclosed that a case of a 24 years old boy, who when he was 16 years was accused of stealing a phone and was sentenced to death, was being looked into by him, explaining that but for an appeal already filed by the family he would have granted him pardon.

He therefore pleaded with the family to withdraw the appeal from the court to enable him exercise the relevant powers and grant the accused pardon, adding that any action taken would be subjudice.

Decrying the activities of the terrorists group, he said: "I want to call on sponsors of Boko Haram that enough is enough, they should have a rethink, they have killed, maimed, kidnapped and today, we are saying, enough is enough," calling on the sponsors of Boko Haram to use the occasion of the nation's 54th Independence Anniversary "to reflect on their actions, enough is enough."

culled from facebook.