The Delta State Government has granted amnesty to 150 convicts in the custodial centres of the Nigerian Correctional Services across the state as part of the measures to contain the spread of COVID-19.
The Delta State Government has granted amnesty to 150 convicts in the custodial centres of the Nigerian Correctional Services across the state as part of the measures to contain the spread ofThe Public Relations Officer, Delta State High Court, Timothy Agbaragu, disclosed this in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Asaba.
The CJ told them that while the pardon freed them from legal disabilities as citizens of Nigeria, such mercy did not erase the fact that they were ex-convicts.He enjoined the beneficiaries of the Governor’s prerogative of mercy to sit at home in strict adherence to government order geared toward curbing the spread of COVID-19.
The CJ said the directive mandated the state governors, through the chief judges of the states, to identify and release the deserving inmates. He said the convicted inmates with minor offences and those who had spent 75 per cent of their remaining sentences after remission were also included.
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