Kumasi Prison Congested

THE ISSUE of congestion, with its attendant health challenges at the Kumasi Central Prison, which has existed for so many years, has once again come to the fore.

The Ashanti Regional Director of Prisons, DDP Owusu Amponsah, said the facility is now accommodating 2,000 inmates, which is almost three times the capacity of the prison.

As a result of the swelling numbers, he noted that the social distancing protocols, suggested by health experts to help stop deadly Covid-19, could not be practiced in the prison.

DDP Owusu Ampongsah has therefore appealed to the authorities concerned to help expand the facility or decongest the prison so that the issue of congestion would be solved.

He was speaking when Joshob Construction, a Ghanaian civil construction company, donated a variety of food items and other items to the inmates so that they would be fed properly.

The items presented included bags of rice, gallons of cooking oil, tubers of yam, just to mention a few. The donation formed part of the company’s corporate social responsibilities.

Mr. Krobea Asante, PRO of Joshob Construction, said similar donation were also made to the inmates of the Manhyia and Amanfrom Prisons to help in the upkeep of inmates.

He said fourteen orphanage homes in Kumasi and other parts of the Ashanti region also received food items from his company, adding that his company cares for the less privileged.