There have been indications that the Nigerian authorities purportedly plan to negotiate with the South African government on the release of Henry Okah, the imprisoned leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).
Recall, Okah was in 2013 found guilty of 13 counts of terrorism and sentenced to 24 years in prison by a SA court.
The Paradigm reports with reference to its sources that the Nigerian administration wants Okah to be discharged from the SA prison to further serve his term in Nigeria.
The move was stated to have been initiated by the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), with several meeting having already been held on the matter.
Commenting on the allegations, President Muhammadu Buhari's media aide, Femi Adesina, stated he was not aware of any such development.
“I don’t have information on it. If I have information on such matter, I will tell you.”
The source, however, insisted that the move was something practiced before: “What they want to do had been done before. You remember sometimes when some drug convicts who were serving jail terms were outside the country were released to the Nigerian government to serve out their terms…”