After spending 22 years in a prison Musa Jack Ngonadi, son of General Yakubu Gowon, has recently been granted pardon by US President Barrack Obama.
Here are some interesting things about Musa you may not know:
1. Jack Musa is the son of ex head of state, General Yakubu Gowon and Late Edith Ike Okongwu. Edith lived with Gowon during the war till his people allegedly kicked her out for flimsy reasons and took young Musa away from her.
2. Many years after Edith relocated to America, she ‘kidnapped’ him on a visit to Nigeria and took him back to America. That move was probably wrong because young Musa became rebellious and didn’t approve of his mothers single and flamboyant lifestyle. Even worse, his dad Yakubu Gowon had allegedly cut him off for as long as he was with his mum.
3. Musa eventually became one of the highest ranking member/ business partner of a Colombian drug cartel. He lived a rich and flamboyant lifestyle until he was caught in 1993. Musa was about 23 years as at that time.
4. Despite his vehement protest through his legal team that he was innocent and was framed up, he was harshly sentenced to 324 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release.
5. As an inmate of Taft Correctional Facility, Musa Jack Gowon was a role model and a legal adviser and a source of inspiration to all the inmates. He was well loved by the prison warded.
6. While in prison, Musa enrolled in one of the universities around and successfully graduated with a degree in Law as an inmate.This commendable act of Leadership did not go unnoticed and he was rewarded severally by prison authorities.
7. While all these were going on, Musa’s family has never stopped fighting to get him out of prison and calls for his release began to grow louder. President Obama heard the calls for Musa’s release and acted in that regard by granting him a parole.
8. Musa walked out of Taft Correctional Facility Bakersfield California as a free man on November 2nd and is currently at ICE Detention Center Bakersfield CA where he will be deported back to Nigeria any moment from now.
9. He is grateful to his Dad, General Yakubu Gowon, his friends and his relatives from his maternal side who stood by him and supported him also all through the period of his unjust incarceration that he did not commit the crime he was wrongly accused of.
10. Musa will narrate his own side of the story very soon and he is grateful to God who kept him alive and well to see this day.
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