Covid-19: Nassarawa Governor Frees 115 Inmates; Offers Them N5000 Each
115 inmates have regained their freedom from six Nigerian Correctional Service, NCS, centres in Nasarawa State, following President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive to decongest prisons to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Governor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa state, while performing a brief ceremony on Wednesday in Lafia, advised the freed inmates to be agents of positive change to society.
Mr Sule, represented by the Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General of Nasarawa state, Dr Abdulkarim Kana, charged the freed inmates to be law abiding in order not to find themselves back in the correctional centre.
He enjoined the inmates to comply with government’s directive on COVID-19 such as observance of physical distancing, coughing into elbows, staying at home, washing of hand with soap and water also use of alcohol-based sanitisers.
