BY NDAHI MARAMA

MAIDUGURI—BORNO State Governor, Kashim Shettima has granted amnesty to 46 prison inmates, including two persons awaiting execution after a death sentence was passed on them by a court in Maiduguri.

Rebecca Emmanuel and Zakaria Saman were sentenced to death after a court found them guilty of culpable homicide punishable with death under Section 221 of the Penal Code, but they will now serve life imprisonment.

The 45  other inmates serving different jail terms in Maiduguri prisons were freed by the governor with a warning that they become good citizens.

Shettima’s spokesman, Isa  Gusau, said the 46 inmates had shown remorse over their conduct, prompting him to release them with a promise of his government readiness ‘’to rehabilitate and re-integrate them into the society through the state’s multi-dimensional empowerment programme which offers vocational training and entrepreneurship to citizens.’’