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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
The Police have arrested two suspects, including the alleged gang leader, in connection with the robbery attack on the Berekum Chelsea football team that resulted in the death of one of the players.
According to a Police update, the arrests were made after intelligence-led operations by security personnel.
One of the suspects sustained gunshot wounds during an exchange of fire with the police.
He has since been taken to a hospital where he is receiving medical treatment, while the other suspect remains in police custody assisting with investigations.
The Police indicated that efforts are ongoing to apprehend other members of the gang linked to the attack.
They assured the public that more details will be provided as investigations progress.
By: Jacob Aggrey
President John Dramani Mahama has arrived in Brazzaville to attend the investiture ceremony of Denis Sassou N’Guesso.
The ceremony follows the re-election of President Sassou N’Guesso for another five year term as leader of the Republic of the Congo.
President Mahama travelled to Brazzaville shortly after launching his Free Primary Healthcare Programme in Dodowa.
He is expected to return to Accra after the ceremony scheduled for Thursday morning.
By: Jacob Aggrey
