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Gov Matawalle grants 150 prisoners parole
No fewer than 150 prisoners were on Saturday granted parole by the Zamfara State governor, Bello Matawalle.
The governor’s spokesperson, Yusuf Idris said the decision was majorly to commemorate the Sallah festival.
The Director-General, Press Affairs, said in Gusau that the freed included five persons serving life terms.
Also freed were five condemned prisoners, 30 convicts, 60 awaiting trial inmates and nine nursing mothers.
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Others included 41 persons freed because they could memorise the Holy Qur’an, those living with some form of disability, the aged and those who had spent more than 20 years without trial.
Matawalle , however, advised the freed persons to consider their renewed freedom as an act of God and also see their time in prison as an opportunity to make them better persons.
The Chief Judge of the state, Justice Mukhtar Yushau, advised the released inmates to denounce their sins and become better persons.
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