THE founder of the New Life Christian Love Fellowship, Nana Kwesi Agyeman, popularly known as Gemann, has presented items worth hundreds of Ghana cedis to inmates of the Sekondi Prisons in the Sekondi/Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly.
He also used the opportunity to encourage both the male and female inmates of the prison to be reflective and think about what brought them to such a place in order not to repeat it.
The items included assorted used clothes, bedspreads, towels, bags, brassieres, panties, sanitary pads, soap, washing powder, capsules, toilet rolls, half a dozen of footwear and creams.
Gemann said after 14 years in prison, he had become an advocate for upgrading the facilities at the country’s reform institutions, and a campaigner for the right of inmates to be upheld.
He said the 2008 Prison’s Service Report indicated that majority of the people who found themselves in prison in that year were ex-convicts.
This, he said, supported the claim that the prison was not reforming inmates as expected, and that it required proper measures to address the issue to ensure that the inmates came out reformed.
He said conditions at the prisons were not good enough and needed to be improved. Gemann called on corporate and social institutions to help in equipping the reform institutions to enable them to train those who unfortunately found themselves at the wrong side of the law.
Gemann’s gesture, which was supported by the management of Skyy Media Group, was to ensure that society contributed to the well-being of inmates.
The Chief Executive of Skyy Media Group, Mr Wilson Arthur, said the future of the country rested in the collective efforts to groom the youth of today in readiness for the future.
He said as part of its social responsibility, the Skyy Group would do everything possible to ensure that it used its medium to educate the public and shape the society in a manner that was acceptable to all.
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