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.
