The Governor of Niger State, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has pardoned 24 convicts, some of whom had already been sentenced to death, and paid N20m in fines for 80 other inmates to secure their release.
The state Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Nasara Danmallam, announced on Friday that the pardons had been granted.
Six of the beneficiaries of the pardon were civil servants who had been convicted of fraud and related offenses and had been dismissed from their positions.
Danmallam also mentioned that 115 bills and legal instruments had been promulgated into law during the outgoing Governor’s eight-year administration, and that the Gender Issues Department had successfully resolved 1,400 cases in 2020.
