Kano Govt pardons over 4,000 inmates in 8 years
AREWA AGENDA – Kano State Government under Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje has said that his administration pardoned over 4,000 prisoners in eight years across the state correctional facilities.
The Governor who was represented by his deputy Dr. Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna stated this while pardoning 43 inmates with various offences serving jail terms during the occasion to commemorate Eid-el-fitr celebration at Goron Dutse custodial facility.
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According to him, his government has also within the eight years “settled fines and compensations for the inmates to the sum of four million, nine hundred and forty-nine thousand naira”.
He added that freedom is everything to human life, he called on the pardoned inmates to exhibit good character wherever they find themselves in society.
The Controller of the correctional service in the State, Suleiman Muhammad Inuwa stated that the gesture offered by the Kano State Government of releasing inmates on payment of fines, compensation and pardon will assist in decongesting the facilities and ensure peaceful atmosphere in the yard.
He appealed to other states to emulate the gesture and also urged the beneficiaries to be good ambassadors of the Nigerian Correctional Service by being law-abiding citizens through displaying good behaviour.
