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A child bride, Rahma Hussein, found culpable of killing her husband seven years ago has regained freedom. Hussein, jailed at 16, was freed by the Committee on Prison Reforms and Decongestion.

The committee led by Justice Ishaq Bello also facilitated the release of 30 other inmates from different custodial centres in the state on Friday.

In 2014, Hussein was arrested and charged to a High Court in Kano State for stabbing her husband to death, barely 24 hours after their wedding.

Delivering judgment in 2018, Justice R. A. Sadik, ordered Hussein to be ‘detained at the pleasure of the governor of the state’ because she was forcefully married and committed the offence at 16.

On Friday, the committee, in its ongoing tour to decongest prisons, found Hussein worthy of benefiting from presidential pardon.

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In a statement to journalists on Saturday, spokesman for the Correctional Centre in Kano, Musbahu Kofar-Nassarawa, said her release was ‘based on the recommendations from the officials of the centre who attested to her good behaviour and industry.’

Kofar-Nassarawa further said that the committee also advised the state governor, Dr Abdullahi Ganduje, to consider the circumstances that culminated into committing the offence and grant her pardon. He said the governor obliged to the advice and granted her pardon.

Speaking after her pardon, Hussein, who was excited, thanked the committee, the governor and officials of the correctional centre for facilitating her freedom.

With teary eyes, Hussein said, “I’m grateful to the committee. The officials of the correctional centre, who recommended me to be a beneficiary of this gesture, may God reward you abundantly. I am also grateful to Governor Ganduje for his mercy on me. I am happy today.’’

Kofar-Nassarawa added that the committee had also paid fines of inmates with options of fines, paid compensations, and released those in critical health conditions, including the elderly.

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