It’s a wrap for ‘Medadwen’

The Mirror Aug - 08 - 2014 , 10:50

The final episode of the first season of the weekly and educative My Life, My Story-Medadwe programme airs tomorrow, August 9 on TV Africa.

Medadwen, which started airing in June, last year, was conceived to draw attention to the myriad of social circumstances that result in some people ending up in correctional facilities or becoming addicted to narcotic substances.

TV Africa’s stance was that society had knowingly or unknowingly come to accept that people who suffer any social misfortune are destined to be so.

The station spent almost two years to interview prison inmates, persons in drug rehabilitation centres and some folks at the Weija Leprosarium to help it throw more light on its conviction that many social challenges have been attributed erroneously to the destiny of victims.

The first episode presented a composite of three items dealing with a prison inmate, the plight of a drug addict in rehabilitation and a leper at the Weija Leprosarium.

Their stories were dramatised for better impact on viewers and a studio panel discussed the issues that arose after the screening . The programme was produced and directed by Kwame Obuo.

The last episode will feature the true story of Amartey Fletcher, a young man sentenced to death for murder and currently in the Nsawam Prison awaiting execution.

Amartey was charged and convicted for murder when a person he stabbed during a confrontation died out of the stab wound.