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Happy birthday to me.To myself, today, on my birthday, I pray that I will be guided by God's hand in everything that I d...
11/11/2023

Happy birthday to me.
To myself, today, on my birthday, I pray that I will be guided by God's hand in everything that I do, that I will find comfort in Him, and be encouraged by the knowledge that He holds me in the palm of His hand and watches over me.

I didn’t get the protection I needed for my difficult job – Prof Frimpong-Boateng.The former Chairman of the Inter-Minis...
08/06/2023

I didn’t get the protection I needed for my difficult job – Prof Frimpong-Boateng.

The former Chairman of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on illegal mining, Professor Frimpong-Boateng, says he did not feel secure in his fight against illegal mining in the country.

The issue of illegal mining has been on the front burner for decades, due to its devastating effects on the environment; especially water bodies nationwide.
As a result, the expert heart surgeon was appointed by President Akufo-Addo to lead government’s charge in combating the menace.But in a twist of events, Professor Frimpong-Boateng was removed from office and replaced by Kweku Asamoah-Cheremeh. This sparked speculation over the possible causes of his removal.

Our priority should be on providing textbooks instead of tablets – Prof OwusuA Medical Sociologist and Public Health Exp...
08/06/2023

Our priority should be on providing textbooks instead of tablets – Prof Owusu
A Medical Sociologist and Public Health Expert, Rev. Prof. Yaa Adobea Owusu, has recommended in contradiction to the government’s plan to replace textbooks in Senior High Schools with tablets.

Speaking on Upfront on JoyNews, she stated that regardless of the advancement of technology globally, many trials hinder this plan, including electricity and internet issues that many communities face.

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13/09/2022

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13/09/2022

Evidence provided to support claims of Chinese galamsey kingpins using Office of the President stickers.

Aisha Huang and other galamsey kingpins were said to be driving around with presidency stickers.

The President of the Concerned Small-Scale Miners Association, Michael Kwadwo Peprah, was the subject of an intense police grilling over his claims that some Chinese nationals engaged in illegal mining drive around with Office of the President stickers embossed on their cars.

His claim related with the arrest of infamous Chinese galamsey kingpin Aisha Huang, who found her way back into Ghana after being deported from the country in 2018.

According to a Citinewsroom report sighted by GhanaWeb, Kwadwo Peprah, after making the claims, was arrested in Kumasi and brought to Accra to withstand police inquiry.

Lawyer for Kwadwo Peprah, Andrew Vortia, in a consultation, said his client was able to show visual evidence of his allegations during the inquiry.

04/07/2022

Government makes a U-turn after turning down calls to seek an IMF bailout

IMF team arrives in Ghana to negotiations

IMF bailout to come with pains, says Joe Jackson

Finance expert, Joe Jackson, has admonished advocates of an International Monetary Fund bailout not to be excited about the government’s eventual decision to seek assistance from the Fund.

According to him, the decision to approach the IMF for a bailout must have come as a tough one for the government, considering its earlier position and the implications of the decision.

He indicated that people who made earlier calls for the government to approach the IMF must not celebrate on the back of the government’s decision.

“In fact, if you think about it clearly, this government knew exactly what the political fallout will be of going to the IMF, they had said categorically over and over again that we will not go to the IMF. They had postured and said with the e-levy, we don’t even need to go to the IMF.

“Of course, all these hasn’t happened so what it should tell each one of us is this, the situation must be dire, the situation must be tough, the situation must be so tough that we are prepared to take the political fallouts because there is no other option.

“Today is not a day of victory for those of us who said the government should be going to the IMF long time ago, today is a day of sadness because today marks the reality that the situation is really tough,” Mr Jackson said.

Joe Jackson, who was speaking in an interview with TV3, emphasised that the conditions which will be set out by the IMF as part of a bailout program will come with hardship.

He indicated that such conditions would include expenditure cuts.

“We all expect the IMF to say, you have to cut expenditure significantly. When those proposals come, where will the expenditure cut be? There may be some route to begin, I am prepared to cut expenditure in this area and not in that area.

“Some of the options may be politically more palata

Trending News in Ghana This EveningMynewsghana.netDec 7, 2021Minority set to reject government’s ‘modifications’ to 2022...
07/12/2021

Trending News in Ghana This Evening
Mynewsghana.netDec 7, 2021
Minority set to reject government’s ‘modifications’ to 2022 budget

The Minority in Parliament has concluded a caucus meeting with a firm resolve not to accept the proposed concessions on the 2022 budget by the Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta.

According to Citi News sources, the Minority in Parliament will insist on its motion of rescission moved last week to overturn the approval of the 2022 budget statement.
Citi News’ Duke Mensah Opoku reported that after the meeting that lasted over two hours, the minority indicated that they do not recognize the 2022 budget and believe that their motion of rescission triggered in the House has not been addressed.

“They are not ready to go back on that. They do not recognize the budget so far because there is no conclusion on their motion of rescission,” Mensah Opoku reported.

The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, on Monday, held a press conference to announce concessions it had made on the controversial budget following the strong opposition from the minority.

Among other things, the minority wants the government to make funds available to address the issue of tidal waves in the Volta Region. They also want the proposed 1.75% E-levy withdrawn.

While the government made some changes in line with the demands, the main concerns around the e-levy were not addressed.

[Video] Cecilia Marfo sheds uncontrollable tears over a statement Diana Asamoah made about her

Ghanaian Gospel musician, Cecilia Marfo was full of tears during an interview with Abeiku Santan on his flagship ‘ATUU’ show.

Cecilia Marfo broke into tears when she was asked about a statement her fellow Gospel musician, Diana Asamoah made about her concerning her encounter with Brother Sammy and Joyce Blessing.

It could be recalled that Diana Asamoah asked her fellow Gospel musicians to be careful of the musician now turned prophetess whenever they attend a program with, inciting them they should la

29/11/2021

Reform of legal education system necessary to accommodate current realities – Akufo-Addo.

President Nana Akufo-Addo says reform of the system, under which legal education currently operates in Ghana, is necessary to accommodate current realities.

He added that the new system should be girded by a strong element of sustainability.

According to him, “Sustainable legal education will have, as its base, the establishment of a regime that will consider the pressing needs of the growing law student population and the expected demands of the generation unborn that will study law. It will be qualitative in its operation, but with a fair and balanced quantitative selection system”.

Reform of legal education system necessary to accommodate current realities – Akufo-Addo
He also stressed that “it must also streamline the regulatory dualism between the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission and the General Legal Council when it comes to legal education. I have to restate my conviction that the General Legal Council must have the final say.“

The President said this on Monday, November 29, 2021, when he delivered a speech at the International Conference on the Future of Legal Education in Ghana/Africa, held at the Auditorium of the University of Ghana School of Law, Legon, Accra.

https://www.myjoyonline.com/tag/legal-education-system-reform

26/11/2021
30/06/2021

Ejura: Details of persons killed, injured during military and police clash with protesting youth.

There is uneasy calm in Ejura Sekyedumase as the youth in the community continue to demand justice following the death of two protestors.

Earlier, the demonstrating youth had stormed the Police station to inquire about the extent of investigations regarding the murder of a social activist, Ibrahim Mohammed aka Kaaka.

Although the Police told them two persons have been arrested in connection with the crime, the agitated protestors said it was just a façade.

The youth, therefore, hit the streets to continue their demonstration until they were met by armed military and police personnel.

30/06/2021

Police report claiming youth attacked security agency is false – Ejura MP





Member of Parliament for Ejura Sekyeredumase, Braimah Mohammed has described as false the claims by the police that the youth of the area attacked the security agencies during their protest to demand justice for dead activist Kaaka Mohammed.

According to him, the police statement is an afterthought and an attempt by the security agencies to cover up the fact that they acted unprofessionally when they opened fire on the youth leading to the death of two people and four others sustaining injuries.

Speaking to JoyNews‘ Joseph Opoku Gakpo, Mr Mohammed stated that the information he gathered showed the security agencies rather fired directly at the youth, who he says did not harm nor attack anyone while protesting.

16/05/2020

Akufo-Addo’s claim that Ghana leads Covid-19 testing in Africa is false – French News Agency (AFP)

The French News Agency (AFP) has described as false President Akufo-Addo’s claim that Ghana “has administered more tests per million people than any other country in Africa.”

According to AFP, it has found from available statistics that Ghana is behind South Africa and at least two other African countries.

The President, Nana Akufo-Addo in his ninth address to the nation on May 10, on measures his government was taking to fight the coronavirus “…in fact, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has reached out to us to share our sample pooling experience with other African countries, so they can adopt this strategy and also ramp up their testing capabilities.”

Read the report by AFP below:

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo claimed in a speech that his country had administered more COVID-19 tests per million people than any other country in Africa. However, the claim is false; AFP has found from available statistics that Ghana comes behind South Africa and at least two other African countries.

The president made the statement on May 10 in a televised broadcast about the novel coronavirus pandemic, which was also widely viewed on Facebook.

“Our country has administered more tests per million people than any other country in Africa, and, in fact, the World Health Organization… has reached out to us to share our sample-pooling experience with other African countries, so they can adopt this strategy and also ramp up their testing capabilities,” he said in his ninth address on the crisis.

He also urged Ghanaians to disregard politicians who allege the country’s COVID-19 numbers represent a failure on the part of the government because “they need to make such comments for their political survival”.

Akufo-Addo is left with barely a year to complete his first term in office, and is facing a tough fight for reelection in December against former leader John Mahama.

At least 5,127 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in Ghana as of May 12, 2020, making it the worst-hit country in the West African region. The government has extended the closure of its borders until May 31, 2020, to try to stem the virus spread.

Akufo-Addo’s claim about leading Africa in tests per million inhabitants was featured in several local and international news reports, including by Africa News and The New York Times.

16/05/2020

1,460 Covid-19 patients in Ghana recover.

Seven hundred and eighty-six (786) patients have recovered from Covid-19 according to the latest figures released by the Ghana Health Service (GHS).

This represents a stark rise to 1,460 against the initial 674 as of the last update.

The latest development comes on the back of an announcement by the service that the country’s total number of confirmed Covid-19 has reached 5,638.
Four more deaths have also been recorded bringing the number of deceased to 28 as of May 15, 2020.

There are currently 4,150 active cases according to the Disease Surveillance Department of the GHS.

07/05/2020

Two-year-old boy dies in Kwesimintsim tanker explosion

A 2-year-old boy lost his life after fire gutted two tanker trucks and about a dozen container shops at “Aben be bom” (Apremdo market) near Kwesimintsim in the Effia Kwesimintsim constituency of the Western Region on Wednesday.


An eyewitness account indicates that a taxi which was being repaired in the vicinity caught fire and spread to the two diesel tankers which were stationed behind the Apremdo filling station. The tankers exploded burning about a dozen container shops in the area.

The two-year-old boy (name withheld) who was sleeping in one of the containers, according to eyewitnesses, got burned beyond recognition whilst the mother, a mobile money vendor sustained some burns in an attempt to save the son.

Eyewitnesses say personnel from the Ghana Fire Service arrived about 15 minutes to the scene after the fire started.

As at the time of filing this report at about 4pm, they were still grappling with the fire.

Smoke from the scene had darkened the Kwesimintsim skies whilst a crowd of onlookers had gathered at the scene disregarding the danger.

07/05/2020

Ghana lacks national agenda – Hilla Limann’s daughter.

Zilla Liman, wife of hiplife ‘godfather’ Reggie Rockstone, has bemoaned the lack of a national agenda to propel Ghana’s development.


She notes that Ghana is still marking time because the country’s leaders have not put in place a clear cut agenda or plan to be followed by all political parties.

The daughter of Ghana’s third president Dr. Hilla Limann, who ruled Ghana from September 24, 1979, to December 31, 1981, noted that the lack of an agenda is thwarting development.

Zilla, speaking in an interview, together with her husband, on TV3’s New Day with Berla Mundi, said: “I definitely think that we should have a national agenda and a national plan because from what we’ve seen in the past, how many years all we see is one political party takes over, they have all these great plans they want to do, they start the plans, another party comes [and] the plans are all thwarted.”

“New plans begin again so we don’t move. We are marking time we go forward, we come back, we go forward,” she noted.

The wife of the rapper explained that the only key for development is an agenda that will be followed by all political parties.

“If we have a national agenda, national plan, it doesn’t matter [which party is in power], there is a national agenda we are following. Somebody starts something the next person continues. We will move forward,” she said.

While she has no plans of following her late father’s footsteps, Zilla narrated that “growing up and being a victim of politics, it has never been in the fall for me to do politics. I’ve never even really thought about it.

“But right now where we are and looking at Ghana as a whole and now realising that Ghana is ours and the way certain things go and you just can’t fathom why things happen the way they happen,” she observed she has had the urge to go into politics but she disclosed that one of her siblings is venturing into it.

07/05/2020

NDC suspends Allotey Jacobs

The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has suspended Bernard Allotey Jacobs, a former Central Regional Chairman of the party, for what it describes as “persistent anti-party conduct".


A statement signed by the party's National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, said the decision was taken after a meeting held today, Wednesday, May 6, 2020, by the Functional Executive Committee (FEC) of the party which acted on behalf of the party’s National Executive Committee (NEC).

Bernard Allotey Jacobs's suspension takes immediate effect in accordance with “Article 46(1), 46(6) and 46(8)(b) of the party’s constitution,” the statement read.

“The matter has been referred to the Disciplinary Committee of the party for further action," the statement read further.

Earlier today, the party issued a statement to boycott Peace FM’s morning show dubbed Kokrokoo over what the party considers as an “unfair panelling system that the Production Team of that program has continuously foisted on the NDC over a number of months”.
The statement signed by Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communication Officer of the party explained that “the boycott has to do with the unreasonable decision of the producers and host of the program to permanently reserve one (1) of the two (2) slots the party has traditionally had on Wednesdays on the show to Mr. Allotey Jacobs, who is often introduced by the host of the program as a 'Social Commentator with strong leanings to the NDC,' ostensibly to spite the NDC”.

The statement continued: “All efforts to get the producers and host of the program to give us a fair representation on the show over the past eight (8) months, including a complaint to the Management of the station for an amicable resolution of this matter, has proven futile as the party continues to be treated with utmost contempt.”

Ghana now has 6th highest coronavirus cases in AfricaAs it stands, only five countries in Africa have recorded more Coro...
30/04/2020

Ghana now has 6th highest coronavirus cases in Africa

As it stands, only five countries in Africa have recorded more Coronavirus cases than Ghana.

Ghana is currently the sixth country in Africa with the most persons infected by the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).

This comes after the country’s total COVID-19 cases moved up from 1,550 to 1,671, as of yesterday, April 28, 2020.

At a press briefing, the Director-General of the Ghana Health Service, Dr Patrick Aboagye, said 188 persons have successfully recovered.

Meanwhile, the total death toll in Ghana has also moved up to 16, with six persons currently moderately to critically ill.

As it stands, only five countries in Africa have recorded more Coronavirus cases than Ghana.

These are Egypt (5,042), South Africa (4,996), Morocco (4,246), Algeria (3,649) and Cameroon (1,705).

Meanwhile, data from the WHO shows that, of the countries that have recorded more than 1,500 COVID-19 confirmed cases, Ghana has the lowest casualties.

Ghana’s 16 deaths is low as compared to Algeria’s 437, South Africa’s 93, Egypt’s 359, Cameroon’s 58 and Morocco’s 163 fatalities.

30/04/2020

*Summary of President's 8th Address on COVID-19*

1. Lockdown was lifted after careful analysis of data & science and economic considerations including the negative effects in the informal sector.
2. Thankful to the media and health workers. Additional locally made PPEs supplied to the health workers.
3. Thankful to USA for the medical supplies.
4. Follow strictly guidelines issued by Ghana Health Service on wearing of Nose & Mouth Mask.
5. Consultations with some interest groups including religious groups came into consensus that the restrictions for Public Gatherings should be extended for additional 2 Weeks.
6. Ghanaians must stop the unpatriotic act of assisting foreigners into the country through unapproved routes.
7. Govt has decided to embark on investment in health infrastructure this year. A total of 88 health facilities to be started and completed within 1 year. The health facility would each be 100 bed with bungalows for health workers.
8. Muslims in this month of Ramadan are encouraged to pray at HOME.
9. GTV suddenly ended the broadcast.

30/04/2020

COVID-19: Swipe, Insert Prepaid Cards Before Visiting Vending Points – ECG

The Electricity Company of Ghana Limited has urged customers who purchase electricity with prepaid cards to do well to either swipe or insert their cards into their meters before visiting vending points or ECG offices to purchase credit.

This is to enable the power distributor gather accurate consumption data to ensure a smooth implementation of the government’s COVID-19 Electricity Relief, a statement by ECG said.

Meanwhile Government’s Relief package would reflect as follows:

Lifeline customers shall have 100% relief of their consumption for the months of April, May, and June, 2020.

All other customers shall receive 50% of their March, 2020 consumption for the months of April, May, and June 2020.

April benefits will be realised in May, May benefits in June, and June benefits in July.

The Energy Relief Package was announced by President Akufo-Addo as part of the interventions introduced by the government to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on people and businesses.

29/04/2020

Oppong Nkrumah takes on critics, gives detailed breakdown of why govt can afford 88 hospitals in 1 year

Its been a collage of reactions to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s Sunday evening address on the updates of the coronavirus in the country.

COVID-19.

Many, including health experts, former Finance Minister, Seth Terkper, and of course social media users have emerged with versions of questions about the feasibility of this pledge.

88 hospitals within a year? With government’s current financial status and with the current economic status? That was mostly the focus of the questions.

Why not! Minister of Information, Oppong Nkrumah’s simple response. In defense, he took his time during a Tuesday briefing held by the ministry, to explain the intricacies of the issue and why it shouldn’t be an impossible task while acknowledging the concerns raised.

In a breakdown of what went into government’s decision and how possible this is, he had this to say:

"It takes a resilient economy to fight and win a successful war.



Ghana’s ability to introduce the various interventions so far, which are helpful, are as a result of our resilient economy today.

Our current economic position is a major reason we are able to marshal the resources to execute a good number of resources like we are seeing today."

"Moving on, the state of the Ghanaian economy will be key in our ability to introduce the necessary interventions which will help us win the necessary battles ahead of us in this war.

"As a former Vice World Bank President for Africa recently mentioned, Health is the economy and the economy is health. The major strategy which we have taken in our 5-path strategy are based on our ability to afford the recommendations by the President’s advisory and coordinating team.

"While we are grateful to them for the advise, we are also grateful for the ability to be able to afford these interventions."

We believe it makes sense why some may question if Ghana will be able to afford all these interventions including these 88 district hospitals.

The question is justified because, looking at our recent economic condition, and the gains made recently as a nation, there is the genuine fear by some that we may not be able to afford some of these interventions.

The concerns and questions are borne out of our collective recollection. Ghana’s internal economy faced significant challenges, mostly due to unbridled consumption expenditure.
It makes sense that some begin to question whether our economy is resilient enough today to afford the whole plethora of things we are doing today including these 88 hospitals that the President has instructed be put up.

*Between January 2017 and now, however, Ghana has made major strides in correcting precarious economic conditions that we found ourselves in.

Our fiscal position has improved, our macro position, has even more significantly improved.

*The combined efforts of the improved macro and fiscal positions is what gives us the chance to afford the interventions that are being introduced as part of the COVID-19 response program.

*We have significantly improved national revenues, we’ve trimmed down our deficits and it has yielded a resilient macro-fiscal position against which we are able to finance the interventions that we talked about in the last 8 weeks or so.

*100 million dollars preparatory programs for border screening and mandatory quarantine, local production of PPE, rammed testing ability, 1.2bn coronavirus package which provided room to support the poor and vulnerable during the lockdowns which also included some 6 million worth soft loans for SMEs that had been badly hit, that is to start in the coming week, about 200 million cedis free water to citizens, all financed on the back of this improved economy.

*6 billion Ghana cedis advanced injected into this year’s budget 2020, 1 billion of which is paying for the free electricity for Ghanaians for three months. 5 billion of which will shore up revenues, owing to the suspended economic activity in the country at a point in time, as well as a stimulus to the sectors that are being hard hit.

*You will note that the advance from the IMF is without conditionalities, enjoys a moratorium and we will pay back in proceeds of economic activity, once this crisis is over.

*So indeed it is due to the resilience of the economy that we are able to afford to take on even double what we had initially estimated to take, about 500m dollars from the fund.

*Additionally, government is able to afford tax cuts for health workers, allowances for contact tracers as well as a 50% basic salary top-up for front line health workers.

29/04/2020

Health
COA Herbal Centre urged to collaborate with FDA to deal with contamination

The Pharmacists Forum has called on Prof Samuel Ato Duncan, the Chief Executive Officer of COA Herbal Centre to work with the Food and Drugs Authority to fix the problem of products contamination rather than fight the issue in the media.

In a statement, the Pharmacists Forum said drug recalls all over the world are in the interest of public health and safety and urged those questioning the authority of the FDA to recall the batches of contaminated products to desist from the practice.

It said in global standard practice, if even one capsule shows microbial contamination, the company might have to pull the batch off the shelves and if more than one batch is implicated, it would have to pull the entire product from the market.

“The FDA may even ask for everything to be pulled off the shelves even if one batch was implicated and there is evidence to show failure in the quality assurance system. This is normal practice for all regulatory organizations around the World,” the statement said.

The Forum said it was wrong for Prof Duncan to go testing samples in labs, which might not necessarily have the needed accreditation for such projects and using the resultant negative result to chastise the FDA.

It said the ability of a lab to perform tests that produce the accurate, consistent and reliable report is important in such analysis and it is public knowledge that the FDA’s Microbiology lab which performed the test being contested by Prof Duncan is accredited to the ISO/IEC 17025-2017 standard by the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board/ANAB of the United States of America.

This means that results from the FDA’s lab can be relied on worldwide, it said.

Microbial contamination can degrade products or, more concerning, can infect and injure patients.

According to the US Pharmacopeia (USP), dietary supplement ingredients should be entirely devoid of Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Staphylococcus aureus, or Clostridium species.

Pharmaceutical product recalls occur on a regular basis all around the World and there are stringent conditions for manufacturers to satisfy before such products are allowed on the market again.

been done to ascertain safety profiles, adding that the fact that a product has passed such tests did not mean the FDA was done.

“They have a responsibility to monitor every product on the market. Post-marketing surveillance is the practice of monitoring the safety of a pharmaceutical drug or medical device after it has been released on the market and is an important part of the science of pharmacovigilance,” the statement added.

It was during one of such monitoring episodes that the FDA detected microorganisms in more than one batch of COA FS and also at the manufacturing plant and immediately notified the company with directions/guidance.

The FDA has a Safety Monitoring Department that derived their mandate to ensure the safety of regulated products from the Public Health Act, 2012, Act 851, Part 7, Section 125.

The Department is mandated to continually monitor the safety of the products regulated under the Public Health Act 851 by analysis of the adverse effect or event reports and by any other means and take appropriate regulatory action when necessary.

“Science may not have all the answers to our questions or problems, but we need to allow our institutions to work. The FDA is out to protect the public, and we should allow and support them to do their job,” the statement added.

29/04/2020

Parliament resumes on Thursday, April 30

Legislators have been recalled to resume Parliamentary work on Thursday, April 30, 2020, at 10 am for the First Meeting of the Fourth Session.

Speaker of Parliament, Prof. Mike Oquaye, announced in a statement that the recall is consistent with Order 6 of the Standing Orders of Parliament.

The resumption is to enable the consideration of pressing matters including the waiving of VAT on donations of stock of equipment and goods for fighting the Covid-19 pandemic; permitting the deduction of contributions and donations towards Covid-19 as an allowable expense for tax purposes; extending the due date for filing of taxes from four months to six months after the end of the basis year.

Covid-19: Prisons boss pushes for non-custodial sentencing regime to facilitate physical distancing of inmates.Director ...
24/04/2020

Covid-19: Prisons boss pushes for non-custodial sentencing regime to facilitate physical distancing of inmates.

Director of Prisons in charge of Operations at the Ghana Prisons Service, Isaac Kofi Egyir, has said the coronavirus pandemic is a wake call for non-custodial sentencing regime in Ghana.

Speaking after disinfection exercise at the Prisons Headquarters in Accra and James Camp Prison against the virus, he said it was important to include decongestion of Ghana’s prisons in long-term plans to fight the pandemic.

“We at the Ghana Prisons Service have been strong advocates the quick passage of law that will regulate non-custodial sentences and I think this is the right time we all put our hands together to get it passed as quickly as possible to save the situation,” Mr Egyir told journalists on Thursday.

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) is among numerous institutions advocating for alternative sentencing, especially for persons who commit petty offences, to clear congestion many of Ghana’s prisons.

The disinfection exercise at the Prisons Headquarters and the James Camp Prison was undertaken by waste management giant, Zoomlion Ghana Ltd, as part of its corporate contribution to the fight against spread of the virus.

Earlier on Thursday, Zoomlion also disinfected the Soul Clinic International School, offering the private school a half-price deal for the disinfection of the entire school.

CSR Project Coordinator for Zoomlion Ghana Limited, Lola Asise Ash*tey, said the company remains committed to supporting government’s bold fight to end the spread of the virus.


As of Wednesday, April 22, 2020, Ghana has recorded 1,154 cases of the virus with nine deaths and 99 recoveries.

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