As Nigeria celebrate centenary celebration, a 92-year-old mother, Halimat Sadiat Ereosun has called on Governor Abiola Ajimobi to release her son from Maximum Prison, Kirikiri, Lagos.  The old woman while speaking with newsmen in Ibadan on Sunday, urged the governor to use the celebration to release her son, Oladipupo Folaremilekun Moshood.

She disclosed that her son was arrested in March 1992 and was sentenced to death by military tribunal in 1996 for alleged armed robbery.

She added that the sentence was committed to life imprisonment in October 2009. "Moshood was born hail and healthy at Ibadan about 58 years ago. Born into a two of other siblings until he was turned to be a laughing stock, languishing in the prison custody," she said.

While on death row, she disclosed that Moshood sat for the General Certificate of Examination (GCE) O'Level and passed before securing admission at the Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) to study Peace and Conflict Resolution in 2008/2009 session.

Not to waste his brain, the old woman called on Ibadan indigenes, the Oyo State Prerogative Board of Mercy and the state governor "to help this able and brilliant man out of prison custody as Maolud Nabiyy and 100 years of Nigeria anniversary 2014 gift to his family and the 92-yr-old mother.

"Moshood has already prepared himself for any, it at all, the challenges of the future, having leant his lesson in a bitter way behind the bar," she said