The Assistant Director for the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons Madam Sophia Osei Bonsu has has stated that , they lack enough portable drinking water to facilitate daily activities.
According to the Assistant Director, water is life but it’s one of their major challenges facing officers and inmates in the Nsawam Medium Prisons.
She hinted that, although government has provided some boreholes but when it’s been opened the pressure of Flow is always low and officers find it difficult to get water for household chores.
Sometimes, officers and inmates struggle in hours before getting a bucket of water to bath or do other activities after waking up at dawn, she asserted.
If officers failed to wake up at dawn to get water for bathing how can they take good care of the inmates in safe custody, she asked.
She mentioned this to the media after Npp’s Hajia Fati handed over a mechanized borehole and renovated the Nsawam female prison facility yesterday.
Madam Sophia Bonsu was appreciative of the gesture and called for more support for imates and officers of the prisons.
Assistant Director Sophia Osei Bonsu has expressed her profound gratitude to Hajia Fati Amadu for the renovation of the female prison facility as well as providing them with a mechanized borehole which will reduce the struggles some officers go through on daily basis.
She has therefore appealed to the general public, corporate institutions and Non Governmental Organizations to come to their aid and support them with boreholes .
On the other hand, A leading member of the New Patriotic Party Hajia Fati Amadu popularly known as “Allegation” who has
renovated some delapidated structures of the facility as well as providing them with potable water is optimistic about the situation and decided to help.
According to the NPP stalwart this is part of giving back to society and supporting the needy and the less previllaged in the prison yard.
Speaking to the media, the Special Aid to the NPP stalwart Dr. Steven Charles Okyere says the gesture is not the first of its kind since the NPP’S stalwart has done and will continue to do more to support society.
Dr. Steven Charles Okyere has highlighted on the numerous support the Npp Stewart Hajia Fati has over the years rendered to both government and private institutions.
Hajia Fati Donated chargeable motorbikes to the Ghana police service, donated food stuffs and unspecified amount of money to the National chief Imam , donated food stuffs as well as two mechanized boreholes to Awutu Bawjiase Countryside Orphanage home and many other donations, he added.