Islamic group, The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has responded to reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has pardoned 54 convicted soldiers.
A military court sitting in Abuja had sentenced the soldiers to death in 2014 after finding them guilty of mutiny.
The soldiers were mostly on the frontlines in the war against the terrorist group Boko Haram and were meant to die on stakes by firing squad.
Daily Post reports that MURIC penned a message of gratitude signed by its director, Prof Ishaq Akintola, praising Buhari for his decision while adding that the group had been clamouring for the pardon.
Commenting on the pardon, MURIC stated that the act means that President Buhari would grant an audience without discrimination.
"Two, the claim that Buhari is brain dead is absolutely false and luciferously malicious. A man whose brain is dead cannot grant a plea or implement a request presented to him within seven weeks.
“The director of MURIC met the president alone on Wednesday, 23rd March 2022. There was no third party. Therefore, nobody could have reminded him later about the issues raised.
“Yet the plea was granted within seven weeks. We, therefore, confirm that our president is not only very much alive, he is also ‘compos mentis’.
“By including the soldiers among those pardoned, President Buhari has pitched his camp with those who show mercy to the oppressed.
“For the records, MURIC waded into the case of the 54 soldiers simply for humanitarian reasons", the group said.
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