Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee led by State Chief Judge, Hon. Justice Hafsat Abdulrahaman, on Wednesday convicted 69 inmates and granted bail to 55 others.
The committee during a visit to the facility also discharged at the Yolde Pate Correctional Centre, in Yola South LGA, bringing the total number of inmates who benefited from the exercise to 175.
The Chief Judge also provided transportation fares for discharged inmates from Bauchi, Yobe and Gombe states to enable them to return to their respective communities.
Justice Hafsat Abdulrahaman also donated delivery kits to a female inmate who gave birth to a baby girl while awaiting trial.
The parents of the newborn who were overjoyed with the gesture named their baby girl Hafsat Hamza in honour of the Chief Judge.
The Adamawa State Jail Delivery Committee comprises representatives of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), the Deputy Chief Register (DCR) Area Court, the Legal Department of the Adamawa State Police Command, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in the Ministry of Justice, the Controller of the Nigerian Correctional Service, among others, will continue with the visit to other correctional facilities across the state.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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