A Nigerian State Governor has forgiven a woman indicted of looting over N3.1 billion from the state treasury, a report this morning said.

Erstwhile Managing Director of Benue Investment and Property Company Limited (BIPC), Mrs. Bridget Sheidu, was indicted by a probe panel set up by Benue State Governor Samuel Ortom. She is one of the 52 persons directed by the Justice Margaret Kpojime-led investigative panel that probed the eight-year tenure of former governor, Gabriel Suswam, to return about N107 billion to the state coffers.

Some of those indicted by the panel have been returning their loot, among them a corporate organisation which in June returned N355.9 million to the State Government.

However, Governor Ortom yesterday directed that Mrs. Sheidu “be pardoned,” a report in New Telegraph said.

The report did not give reason for the governor’s decision.

•Photo shows Governor Ortom.

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