H.E. President Mahama seems to be working harder, except we still have lights out for 24 hours every 36 hours.
He freed 900 prisoners last week, after he visited the Nsawam prison, Ghana’s biggest prison. According to Citifmonline.Com, President Mahama wants to expand the Nsawam prison so to make prisoners comfortable since the situation at the prison is unbearable.
He said
We will be to increase the space for accommodation in this prison and so in that regard, we are going to allocate money to build two new blocks in Nsawam Prison so that we can move majority of the inmates to ease congestion,
as President and as the leader of government, I am saying that with what I’ve seen, we have an absolute commitment towards ‘Project Effiase’ to improve the conditions of the inmates of our prisons.
I’ve heard of the very good work most of you have done in the BECE and the SSCE but you don’t have any opportunity to continue and so we are going to get one of the tertiary institutions to start a distance learning programme in prison so that those who passed SSCE can continue and get a degree.
Georgina Wood, the Chief Justice added
We shall be commissioning a permanent court in this facility to review the cases of remand prisoners,” she said.
She added that the permanent court will have a High Court Judge, a Circuit Court Judge and also, a District Court Magistrate “so that depending on the nature of the case, they can make the necessary judgment.