A group, Shamies Unusual Hearts Foundation, has facilitated the release of five prisoners from Suleja Medium Security Custodial Centre, Niger State. Program Director of the foundation, Shedrack Okah, who disclosed this yesterday during release of the prisoners, said that the gesture was part of the foundation’s legacy project.
He explained that the gesture to release the inmates is out of love and compassion of the founder of the group for the less-privileged, especially those who were in prison for bail able offenses. Okah said: “The motivation behind this humanitarian service to prisoners is the story behind the founder of the foundation Ambassador (Dr) Sara Abdul, because of the experience she had during her childhood when somebody very close to her was wrongly imprisoned on the allegation of stealing although innocent of the crime. Earlier in his address, the Assistant Controller of Corrections, Ali Dayyabu Ali, commended Shamies foundation for their initiative of empowering the less privilege in Nigeria. He also called on other NGOs to key into what Shamies foundations is doing in areas releasing prisoners, noting that the foundation has also contributed a lot in the aspect of inmates’ education. He said: “We have secondary to degrees level, the vocational center where we train some inmates in tailoring, shoe making, and others. “We urge other NGOs to participate in the general development of our citizens so that they can be discharged as law-abiding citizens that is what is expected from us with the collaboration of NGOs”. Confirming the numbers of inmates released, he said “When the foundation came here, they paid for the bail of five (5) inmates and promised to establish them, rehabilitate and reintegrate them back to the society,” he said. Speaking with journalists, one of the release inmates, Rebecca Danjuma, who commented the foundation for the kind gesture, said, “Is only God that can help and blessed them. They came to my life at the point of need and God will come to their life at the point of their need. May God continue blessing them. I don’t know them but God knows them,” she prayed. According to Shamies Unusual Heart, “the Foundation is a Nigeria NGO with a mission to rehabilitate, empower and reintegrate ex-convicts into the society: through a wide range of advocacy, representation, trainings, and support programmes. Source: Vanguard
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