‘Dehumanising’- Muntaka bemoans GHC1.80 daily meal for inmates

Interior Minister-designate and Asawase MP, Muntaka Mubarak has expressed his displeasure with how inmates are fed, berating the “dehumanising” treatment to prisoners.

The ministerial nominee noted that he was left in shock to find out that inmates are fed a daily meal amounting to GHC1.80 per inmate.

He bemoaned the treatment given to prisoners and assured that when given the nod, more attention will be extended to prisoners in Ghana.

“Even feeding, when I heard it yesterday, I was shocked that we can treat each other that way. Today, the rationing for a prisoner in Ghana is GHC1.80 for the whole day and I will doubt with the greatest respect to these members of the Committee and those listening to us that even the cats and dogs in our houses, how much food do we give them that we put our own compatriots because of one mistake or the other in trying to correct them we feed them with GHC1.80,” he said.

According to him, this treatment rather makes it impossible for persons serving jail time to rectify their behaviour.

“We are rather putting them in an area where we are expecting to come out more criminal than they went in that is why I give assurance that I will pay attention to the prisons,” he told the Committee.

He further outlined his plan of establishing more infrastructure to separate persons who are on remand from convicted fellows, a move he said will decongest prisons in Ghana.

“I will pay attention to separating remand prisons from the main prisons not only in Nsawam but in other prisons so that they [those on remand] are not forgotten.”

The Interior minister-designate explained a ‘Justice for All’ project where judges move into the prisons and expedite cases, particularly remand cases.

“…Together with the Attorney General and the Chief Justice, we will look at how we can use that Justice for All to decongest our prisons…I am sure it will lessen the burden that we are putting our compatriots,” he noted.

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