Imo attack: Interior Minister offers amnesty to escaped inmates
By TVC News Nigeria
07 April 2021 |
2:34 pm
Minister of interior, Rauf Aregbesola disclosed that amnesty will be granted to escaped inmates who surrenders while assessing the level destruction by unknown gunmen at the facility on Monday.
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