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Saturday, December 22, 2012

We weren’t told of our 20yrs sentence until we got to prison – Ganiyu Ishola



Different faces of Ishola after his release from 21
years in imprisonment in Egypt . Punch Nigeria

After spending 20 years in Egyptian prisons over “trumped-up and drug-related charges,” Ganiyu Ishola, who was in North Africa to study, is happy to breathe the air of freedom again, writes ’TANA AIYEJINAGaniyu Ishola was asleep on a fateful day in Cairo, Egypt, in 1992 when Egyptian policemen visited him. As he managed to get back to his senses, he was arrested amidst pleas, which fell on deaf ears.Still unaware of his offence, he was taken to a police station. Thus began his long battle to regain his freedom in a faraway land.

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