-- A 36-year-old US-based Nigerian, Olufolajimi Abegunde, who is currently serving a 78-month prison term in Tennessee, on Friday called on the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to intervene in what he described as his unfair imprisonment, insisting that he was a victim of racism. (Punch News)
-- According to the group, Abegundi, who has already spent 15 months in US prison for his alleged involvement in money laundering has been suffering from torture and maltreatment for the crime they alleged he didn’t commit (Daily Trust News)
-- Olufolajimi Abegunde has spent three years of his six and half years conviction for money laundering in the United States of America prisons, but the bright and enterprising young man insists that his imprisonment was purely because he is black and a Nigerian and not based on real evidence. Abegunde popularly called LJ by his friends, told Encounter in a telephone conversion from his prison cell that a review of his case by the US Justice Department, would reveal a clear case of bias and racism against him by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI and the trial judge. According to him, several efforts to list his case for review have been futile as no one appears to be interested in listening to his appeal. (Vanguard News)
-- How FBI and U.S. prosecutors convicted Nigerian on frame-up charges. (Today News Africa)
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