PRESIDENT BUHARI STRESSES NEED TO REFORM,DECONGEST PRISONS,

President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday reaffirmed that prison reforms and decongestion will be pursued with greater vigor by his administration. Speaking at a ceremony in Kurmawa Central Prison Kano, at which 500 inmates were either pardoned or set free upon the payment of fines by the State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, President Buhari lamented that some of the freed inmates were young and charged prison authorities to make every effort to make better citizens of prisoners. President Buhari pledged that prisons reforms and decongestion would continue to receive prompt…