Five Amawbia Correctional Service Center inmates in Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State have been set free.
A non-governmental organization (NGO), Abu Mmaduaburochukwu Foundation, perfected their bail conditions.
The freedom ceremony was held in the presence of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) officers, Nigeria Police delegates from Zone 13 Ukpo, led by its Zonal Police Public Relations Officer, SP Ihunwo Josephine, members of the press, and the management team of the Foundation at the NCS facility in Amawbia on Thursday.
In his welcome speech, the Deputy Controller of Corrections in the facility, Rev Solomon Uba, lauded the Founder of the Foundation, Chief Mmaduaburochukwu Attah, for his commitment towards giving the inmates a sense of belonging.
Rev. Uba, who Officer N.O represented. Harford charged the inmates to abstain from cultism, drug abuse, and other social vices as they will be reintegrated back into society.
In his remarks, the Founder of ABU Foundation, Chief Mmaduaburochukwu Attah, a real estate mogul and transporter, said he is doing this to ameliorate the suffering of the poor and downtrodden in society.
According to him, lifting people from poverty is not solely the government’s responsibility alone. It is also the duty of well-to-do individuals always to assist the less privileged people around them.
“What you have seen here are things we have been doing for six years since we incorporated this foundation, and I will continue doing it as God blesses me,” Chief Attah assured.
In her brief advice, the Zone 13 PPRO, SP Josephine, urged the freed inmates to be good ambassadors to their families, communities, their states of origin, and the country at large.
She also advised them always to do the right thing at the right time.
In their separate interview with newsmen, the inmates, Chidozie Ikile, Chikwube Obiagu, Ebuka Afoba, Izuchukwu Nwosu, and Ozodo Uchechukwu, promised not to be involved in activities that would return them to what they described as hellfire (prison).
They prayed to God to continue to bless the benefactor for coming to their freedom.
The Nigerian Tribune gathered that during the ceremony, the foundation distributed packs of toilet papers, cartons of Baby & Me bathing soap, and cartons of Gala to the correctional facility.
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