The Kano State Chief Judge Justice Nura Sagir-Umar yesterday released 35 inmates awaiting trial from the Goron Dutse Correctional Centre.

The information was contained in a statement by Mr Baba Jibo-Ibrahim, the State Judiciary Spokesperson in Kano.

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The CJ announced the release of the inmates during a two-day visit to the Goron Dutse Correctional Centre.

The law empowers the CJ to conduct prison visit and order the release of any prison inmate if satisfied that the detention of that person is manifestly unlawful or that the person detained has been in custody.

Whether on remand or otherwise for a period longer than the maximum period of imprisonment, the person detained could have served or been convicted of the offence in respect of which he was detained.

He said Sagir-Umar urged the freed inmates to be of good behaviour, law-abiding and desist from committing crimes.