Nigeria: Extend Amnesty to FCT Inmates, Prisons Boss Begs FG

28 October 2011

In a bid to reduce prison congestion to the barest minimum, the comptroller of Nigeria Prisons Service (NPS), FCT command, Mr. Luka Dapaku has appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan and other relevant authorities in the country, to extend its amnesty programme to prisoners in the capital territory.

Dapaku who gave this charge while playing host to the wife of interior minister who led a team of delegates from international prisons chaplain organisation, said that the request, if granted, would perhaps be the boldest decision government would take towards reducing congestion in the FCT prisons.

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