The Member of Parliament (MP), for Ho Central , Captain George Nfojoh (rtd), has organised a dinner for 600 inmates of the Ho Central Prisons and also donated an industrial sewing machine and a colour television set for their use.
The MP also promised to provide musical instruments and 100 bags of cement to support a housing project at the prisons.
Capt. Nfojoh, who made the promises last weekend, said he appreciated the fact that the prison was built for only a few number of inmates, but was now congested.
Stressing that anybody could find himself at the prisons at any time, he called for the maintenance of a healthy environment there.
He said for the first time, female inmates had interacted with their male counterparts who hitherto did not know that they were there.
The MP advocated provision of uniforms for the male inmates, adding that consideration should be given to the introduction of community service as a way of decongesting the prisons.
Capt. Nfojoh told the inmates not to see the prison officers as being inhuman because of the circumstances under which they found themselves, including not being fed well and rather put the blame on the low financial allocation from the Central Government.
The acting Director-General of the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS), Mr Kofi Bansah, said diagnostic centres were to be set up in all prisons in the country, with a view to helping the inmates to receive necessary treatment.
He said some industrial equipment had arrived at the Tema Port which enhance vocational training for inmates and urged the inmates, to take vocational training seriously whenever the programme started to enable them to reintegrate easily into society after serving their sentences.
He advised the inmates to take advantage of the proposed distance education programme which had already started at the Nsawam and Kumasi prisons in order to develop themselves to prepare them to meet future challenges.
Mr Bansah urged the public to visit the prisons to interact with the inmates and make them feel part of the society and not abandon them to their fate. He commended Capt. Nfojoh for his gesture.
In an address, the Volta Regional Prisons Commander, Mr Alhassan Legibo, also thanked Capt. Nfojoh for the gesture and urged others to emulate his example.
The MP for Ho West, Mr Emmanuel Bedzrah, told the inmates to see their time in prison as a period of reformation and that they should exhibit the spirit of reformation after they had served their terms and went back home, so that they would be accepted and integrated into the society.
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