Eighteen inmates have reportedly been released from the Keffi Correctional Centre in Nasarawa State following the intervention of a federal lawmaker.
Ahmed Wadada, the senator representing Nasarawa West District, said he facilitated their release through his lawyers.
He said the inmates had spent over two years at the facility awaiting trial for minor offences or because they were unable to pay fines.
A senior legislative aide to the senator, Theophilus Ego, made this known in a…
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