It is the joy of every parent to see their children grow and become a respectable member of the society but Gen.Yakubu Gowon’s expectations was cut short concerning his son. It was a shock to millions of Nigerians when it was reported that the president’s son Musa Jack has been arrested on November 18, 1992 at the age of 23 by Agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the United States Customs Service for conspiring to import in excess of one kilogramme of heroin.
He was sentenced to 40 years in prison for smuggling heroin, although Ngonadi protested vehemently through his legal team that he was innocent and was framed.
It was reported that after the arrest of the former president’s son, Yakubu Gowon has not been a happy man because his hopes of grooming the young lad into a responsible man was dashed.
His family, however, did not relent in their efforts to get him out of prison. Calls for his release began to grow louder and President Obama eventually relented by granting him parole.
After spending 22 years in a California prison, Musa Jack Ngonadi, the son of former military Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, has returned home to the open arms of his father.
The 47-year-old son of Gowon was reported to have arrived Nigeria on January 1. He was released last year on a state pardon granted by President Barack Obama.
However, when he was serving his terms in prison, Ngonadi decided being in prison was not the end of life. He enrolled in a university and successfully graduated with a degree in law as a prison inmate. He was also a role model and a legal adviser to all the inmates. He carried himself with dignity and was a source of inspiration to co-inmates who had given up on life. He was rewarded for his good conduct several times by the prison authorities.
Ngonadi walked out of Taft Correctional Facility, Bakersfield, California as a free man in early November, 2015
