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Sekondi Female Prisons ‘begs’ for tools for training inmates
The Sekondi Female Prisons is in dire need of teaching and learning materials to train inmates in profitable ventures.
The training of every inmate was critical in the reformation and rehabilitation mandate to ensure that inmates had employable skills, to enable them to come out as improved and better individuals to reduce crime rates in communities.
CSP Judith Abbiw, the Second in Command of the Sekondi Female Prisons, however bemoaned the absence of modern and durable logistics to carry out such mandate.
She said, the government apprenticeship programme and other TVET initiatives must take into consideration the needs of these reformative institutions to enable them to make the needed impact in the lives of the inmates.
CSP Abbiw, therefore called on benevolent institutions and companies to engage them to know the specific logistical needs that the service needed to deliver training to the inmates.
According to her, the female inmates are trained in beads making, weaving, hairdressing, dressmaking and décor among others. -GNA
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Chief Imam issues disclaimer on unauthorised petitions
The Office of the National Chief Imam has warned Muslim organizations and individuals against issuing statements and petitions to the Government in his name without permission.
In a statement, the Chief Imam said he had observed that some groups had been circulating petitions, including a recent one on Hajj, using his name without authorization.
He stressed that such actions were unlawful and cautioned those involved to stop or face the law.
The Chief Imam reminded the public that on October 4, 2022, he, together with the National Imams of all Muslim sects, signed a deed and presented it to the Government at the Jubilee House.
The agreement recognised the National Muslim Conference of Ghana as the official body representing Muslims in their dealings with state institutions.
He urged that any petitions meant to be sent to the Government in his name should go through the National Muslim Conference of Ghana with the approval of the Advisory Board of his office.
By: Jacob Aggrey
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Abronye remanded in police custody for one week
The Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe, popularly known as Abronye DC, has been remanded into prison custody for one week.
He was brought before an Accra Circuit Court on Thursday, September 12, 2025, on charges of offensive conduct conducive to breach of the peace and publication of false news, which are classified as misdemeanours under Ghanaian law.
After hearing the case, the court ordered that he be kept in custody while investigations continue.
He is expected to reappear before the court on Thursday, September 19, 2025.
By: Jacob Aggrey
