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ABUJA – The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, said over 4,000 inmates have been freed nationwide so far under the Federal Government Amnesty Programme launched in 2020.
Aregbesola said this during the inauguration of 53 operational vehicles purchased for the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) on Tuesday in Abuja.
The minister said the exercise had gone a long way in reducing the number of inmates in the service nationwide.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Muhammadu Buhari had granted presidential pardon to 2,600 inmates of Correctional Centres nationwide in April 2020.
NAN also reports that the pardon was said to be a continuous process in tackling overcrowding in all the Custodial Centres across the country.
The Minister of Interior, Mr Rauf Aregbesola, said over 4,000 inmates have been freed nationwide so far under the Federal Government Amnesty Programme launched in 2020.
The federal government said logistics was the major reason more than 4,000 inmates were released from prisons across Nigeria. Minister of Interior, Rauf
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