General Yakubu Gowon's Son 'Jack Musa' Reportedly Freed From U.S. Prison After 22 Years

Jack Musa; credit: Instablog9ja

Gowon Jack Musa, a k a Jack Spence, a son of Nigeria’s former head of state, General Yakubu Gowon has reportedly been released from a prison in the United States after 22 years of imprisonment for a drug-related offence.
Jack Musa was arrested on November 18, 1992, for conspiring to import in excess of 1kg of heroin into the United States. Detectives found, in his room, a Swiss Air Global Hotel Guide on which Musa had written a reference to “The Heroin Connection.” .



They also found a television documentary on the recruitment of individuals in the Dallas area to smuggle heroin into the U.S. He had also written a phone number for Donald Iwegbu, an alleged co-conspirator who had admitted that the goal of the operation was to smuggle heroin into the U.S.


He was found guilty by a jury and was sentenced to 27 years in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release, but thanks to the new prison reform in the USA, he was among those granted pardon and released earlier this week.

Jack Musa may have been the beneficiary of a new prison reform in the USA, which is seeing up to 6,000 prison inmates pardoned and released. According to the Washington Post, the Justice Department in the USA is making the largest release of federal prisoners in an effort to reduce overcrowding and provide relief to drug offenders who received harsh sentences over the past three decades.

Although, his father disowned him after being arrested, Musa, now 47, is said to be the product of the romance between Edith Ike Okongwu, who died while Musa was in prison, and former Nigerian president, Gen. Yakubu Gowon.