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In a significant act of mercy, the Adamawa State Chief Judge, Justice Hasfat Abdulrahaman, has freed a 70-year-old woman, Saraya Silma, who spent a decade in the Yolde-pate Correctional Centre awaiting trial over unfounded allegations of witchcraft that have been laid on her.  Silma, along with 41 other inmates, was pardoned during an exercise led by the state’s prerogative of …

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