The Chairman, Springtime Development Foundation, Dr. Deji Adeleke, has
secured the release of about 200 inmates of the Ilesa Prison in Osun
State.
The Vice-Chairman of the foundation, Mr. Banji Adesuyi, said this at the
Ilesa Prison on Tuesday when the group was donating 700 mattresses and
the same number of pillows to the inmates.
Adesuyi said Adeleke became aware that inmates of the prison were
sleeping on the bare floor when he went to pay a visit to an embattled
chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Alhaji Diekola Oyedele, who
was detained at the prison.
He explained that the foundation paid for the release of inmates, who
were incarcerated because they could not pay fines as low as N5,000,
stressing that the foundation did not secure the release of any inmate
convicted because of crime.
Adesuyi said Adeleke was not prompted to secure the release of the
inmates because of political reason but purely on humanitarian ground.
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