BREAKING NOW: 2600 PRISON INMATES RECEIVE AMNESTY FROM FG

No fewer than two thousand six hundred in various prisons across the country were today, granted amnesty by the Federal Government of Nigeria.


The amnesty to inmates in Correctional centres is part of measures by government to decongest prison facilities in the country amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The Honourable Minister in charge the Interior Affairs Ministry, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola stated this on Thursday, at an ongoing international press conference at the headquarters of the Nigerian Correctional Service in Abuja.

Available information reveals that the inmates, many who are serving various terms for crimes against the society, would be released later today after being processed.

This move has received tremendous applause from various sections of society including the opposition parties as they described the amnesty programme as a fallout of a listening administration.

However, a human rights activist and public commentator, Comrade Yusuf Isah while commending the FG, appealed that due diligence must be followed in the release of such persons from detention even as he called for the release of prisoners of conscience and all those who are critics of government, saying; "Government must show a human face in giving amnesty to detainees or those unjustly incarcerated for opposing or for boldly challenging or speaking truth to the government".


Comrade Isah however enjoined the beneficiaries of government's pardon to ensure that they become people of good behaviour if they must be reintegrated back onto society.