Wilhelmina Graves (3rd from left), Director of Administration, Anglican Diocese of Accra Secretariat, presenting one of the items to Nathaniel Agyemang Onyinah (3rd from right), a Deputy Director of Prisons. With them are Rev. Fr Kwasi Bonsu Asante (left), Programmes Coordinator, Anglican Diocese of Accra Secretariat, other staff of the service and members of the church. Picture: SAMUEL TEI ADANO

Accra Anglican Diocese donates to Prisons Service

Jemima Okang Addae Dec - 11 - 2023 , 10:44 2 minutes read

The Anglican Diocese of Accra last Friday, donated items worth GH¢27, 500 to the Ghana Prisons Service to cater for the prison inmates in Accra.

The items included 90 pieces of ceiling fans, five bags of rice, three gallons of cooking oil, tomato paste, four bales of used clothes and detergents.

The Director of Administration of the Anglican Diocese of Accra, Wilhelmina Graves, explained that they consulted with the Chaplain General of Prisons Headquarters as to the needs of the service and that informed the items mobilised.

She said that given that the Christmas season was also a time of giving and sharing, the diocese thought it wise to add some food items to support the inmates.

The Deputy Director of Prisons, Nathaniel Agyeman Onyinah, who received the items on behalf of the Service and the Commanding Officer of Prisons Headquarters, expressed his gratitude to the Anglican Diocese of Accra for remembering the prison inmates during Christmas.

“It is said somewhere in the Bible that ‘when I was in prison, you remembered me’ and we are happy that today, you have remembered them.

The locked but not forgotten,” he stated.

He gave an assurance that the items provided would be used by the prison inmates.

Mr Onyinah, however, called on the public, private individuals and civil society organisations (CSOs) to not forget the inmates and emulate the Anglican Diocese of Accra.

Visit

The Chapel General of the Ghana Prison Service, ADP Rev. Canon Adama Okai, explained that on his visit to the prisons in the Northern part of the country down to Obuasi, he realised the prison inmates needed fans as they had dermatitis, popularly known as skin rash due to the heat.

He said there were about 40 prisons in the country and at every prison, not less than 20 dormitories.

He assured that the items donated would go to the Northern prisons to combat the rising heatwave, saying, “At this time of season, the weather is very hot”.