Compost plant donates GH¢5,000 to Prisons Service
An amount of GH¢5,000, which is the proceeds from an end-of-year thanksgiving service held by the Accra Compost and Recycling Plant, has been donated to the Ghana Prisons Service Council at a short ceremony in Accra.
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According to the Managing Director of the compost plant, Dr Richard Amponsah, the decision to donate the offering from the thanksgiving service to the ‘Afiase Project’ was influenced by their desire to help in the upkeep of inmates in the country’s prisons and to fulfil scripture.
The project, which was launched in July 2015, is a 10-year strategic development plan aimed at revitalising Ghana’s prisons and also serves as a trust fund to reform and rehabilitate all 43 prisons in the country.
“We felt that we need to be a good example to what Jesus is saying, so we decided that our offering should be given to the Ghana Prisons Service. We acknowledge that the prison is a correction place and we acknowledge that good people go to prison as well as bad people. We want to remember them and believe that this little effort should go a long way to help the system,” Dr Amponsah said.
Proposal
Dr Amponsah proposed that the prisons must be used as places to adequately train artisans for the benefit of the country.
“We lack a lot of artisans in our socio-economic development. People building find it difficult to get good plumbers, electricians and good masons.
“We could restructure the Ghana Prisons Service to have a programme where the skills of inmates are well developed, so that when they come out they become good artisans for our country and we can integrate them into the economy,” he suggested.
Reformation of Ghana Prisons Service
Receiving the cheque, the Chairman of the Ghana Prisons Service Council, Rev Dr Stephen Wengam, expressed the gratitude of the Ghana Prisons Service to the management of the compost plant for showing the way and promised that the money would be put to good use.
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He said the ‘Afiase Project’ was launched to raise GH¢25 million every year, for the implementation of the 10-year strategic plan.
“Such donations will go a long way to help us reform and transform the Ghana Prisons Service, so that we can complete our constitutional mandate of reforming and rehabilitating our prisoners,” he added.
Writer’s email: edmund.asante@graphic.com.gh