Governor Al-makura said that this was part of efforts to decongest prisons in Nasarawa State in north-central Nigeria and grant clemency to prisoners who were yet to be convicted.
He said that the state government had taken responsibilities of the charges that had confined some of the jailbirds behind the bars.
In his commendation, the Nasarawa State Comptroller of Prisons, Mr Hussaini Mohammed, lauded the Governor’s intervention to decongest the prisons.
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