Lagos – The international effort to bring about the release of Israeli agent Jonathan Pollard from an American prison recently received an unexpected endorsement from one of the most respected voices in Africa.
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Nigerian pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, who was named one of the 50 most powerful people in the world by Newsweek, wrote US President Barack Obama asking him to commute Pollard’s life sentence to the nearly 26 years he has already served.
His Redeemed Christian Church of God has more than 14,000 branches in 110 countries and has more than five million members in Nigeria alone. It has hundreds of branches in cities across the US.
“I humbly request that the remainder of Jonathan Pollard’s sentence is commuted in the interest of justice,” Adeboye wrote Obama.
Adeboye’s letter is part of a trend of top current and former African and African-American officials joining the effort to bring about Pollard’s release ahead of the 26th anniversary of his arrest on November 21.
Very nice. But I wonder, how did they get involved?
Mr. Obama, Tear Down The Wall That Is Keeping Pollard Prisoner.
Gooles gooles vee groys bestee…? How much longer will Pollard be in jail..With his health condition will he ever make it out alive.?
Should hashem help he and all other jews and sholom rubashkin should come out of jail reply on this comment if you hold like me
Pollard is where he belongs. Traitors often get worse.
Pollard is a traitor and a spy.