Human Rights Activist, IG Wala Receives Presidential Pardon
Nigerian activist, Ibrahim Wala popularly known as IG Wala, who was convicted for falsely accusing a public official of corruption, has been released.
His release was due to President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval for the release of 2,600 prison inmates across Nigeria.
The activist was jailed on April 15, 2019 by Justice Yusuf Halilu of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory after a petition filed by the Chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, Abdullahi Mukhtar.
In the petition, Mukhtar alleged that Wala used his Facebook page to incite the public against him and defamed his integrity and that of the commission he heads.
