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The Niger State Command of the Nigeria Correctional Service has debunked the alleged deaths in its facility of eight inmates due to hunger or under-feeding. This was contained in a statement signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, CSC Rabiu Mohammed Shuaibu, in Minna. Shuaibu, who said no inmate died in any of the command’s correctional facilities as a result of underfeeding, described the purported deaths of eight inmates by some media reports as totally false, ill-motivated and aimed at causing panic in society. According to him: “The command wishes to clearly state that, there was…

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