57 years old man freed after spending 27years in prison for a crime that he did not commit

A 57-year-old Nigerian man who spent 27 years in prison for a murder that he did not commit, has been freed.

According to Rivers State Television, Clinton Kanu was arrested at the age of 30, convicted of murder in 1992 and remanded in Port Harcourt Maximum Prisons.

His appeal against the lower court judgement dragged on for a really long time, but eventually he got to the Supreme Court of Nigeria. There, he got acquitted of the murder charge on the 5th April, 2019.

Now free, Kanu is seeking a reform of the nation’s justice system and the prisons.