Clemency urged
A Nigerian schoolmistress, Arit Umorem, wanted to retain her Government house so much that she sprayed petrol on a team of bailiffs i who came to evict her, and| set them on fire. The High Court in Port Harcourt sentenced her to death for murder, but the judge recom-j mended state clemency, and; the sentence may be commuted to a prison term.—Lagos, January 20.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33438, 21 January 1974, Page 10
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