The Minister for the Interior, Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, has urged Ghanaians across the world to view the rehabilitation of the nation’s correctional facilities and the reformation of prisoners as a shared national responsibility.
That, he said, was because the government alone could not shoulder the full responsibility, and therefore called on the private sector, institutions and individuals, both within and outside the country, to support the Ghana Prisons Service in its ongoing reforms aimed at strengthening rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates.
“Let me call on all companies, institutions and individuals, not just in Ghana, but across the world, to support the Ghana Prison Service.
Whether through equipment, training, infrastructure, or even small acts of generosity.
It is a shared national mission to rehabilitate and rebuild,” he said, when he inaugurated three new buses for the Ghana Prisons Service in Accra yesterday.
The buses—one Toyota Coaster, one Hyundai County, and one Ashok Highland, all assembled locally — are to enhance the safe and efficient movement of inmates to court, health facilities and rehabilitation programmes.
Mr Mohammed-Mubarak expressed gratitude to the Office of the President for providing one bus, and to Maripoma Company Limited for donating the remaining two, describing their gesture as a demonstration of the collaboration needed to uplift the service.
Feeding, jammers
He further disclosed plans to install CCTV cameras and scanners in all 14 prisons nationwide, beginning with 10 facilities, and the introduction of jammers to curb illicit communications.
He assured officers of the government’s continued commitment to equip the service, describing the donation as “a step toward dignity, efficiency and humane treatment of inmates.”
Investment, initiatives
The Director-General of the Ghana Prisons Service, Patience Baffoe-Bonnie, described the donation of the three new buses to the service as an investment in human dignity, operational efficiency and hope.
She said the gesture would ensure that inmates were transported to court and hospitals with dignity while officers also commuted safely to work.
Mrs Baffoe-Bonnie emphasised that such support fuelled the service’s broader transformation agenda to modernise the institution into a technology-driven, self-sustaining system focused on rehabilitation, professionalism and national development.
The director-general also mentioned the Kitchen Support Project, which ensured every prison cultivated vegetables and reared fish or poultry to improve inmates’ nutrition.
She expressed gratitude to the Interior Minister for his consistent advocacy and resource support, affirming that the Prisons Service was ready to deliver visible results through the continued collaboration.
