Chronicling
the events that unfolded during his incarceration, Ken Kuranchie has
expressed doubt about the civilization of the country.
According
to him, Ghanaians have no right to call themselves “civilized people”
after lamenting about the state and treatments meted out to prisoners
across the nation.
He was critical about his experience at the Ho
Central Prisons during his transfer from the Nsawam Prisons and
explained on Oman FM's 'National Agenda' this Monday that “when you see
the treatment given to people [human beings]; at Ho prisons, we have no
right to call ourselves civilized people.”
Meanwhile, the General
Secretary of the People’s National Convection (PNC), making his
submissions on the same platform bewailed the nature of Ghana’s prisons
and appealed to the authorities to improve the living conditions of
inmates in the various prisons across the country.
In his view,
Ken Kuranchie, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Searchlight should document
his 10-day experience after being declared contemptuous of court
following a publication in his newspaper.
The publication which
was deemed distasteful and a way to probably discredit the nine-member
panel sitting on the ongoing election case saw the newspaper editor
sentenced to prison for 10 days together with a member of the ruling NDC
Communication team, Stephen Atubiga who was also sentenced to 3 days
imprisonment for similar reasons.
Ken Kuranchie’s release from prison has since brought into light the issue about the conditions of prisoners in the country.
This
therefore engendered comments from the PNC General Secretary who
expressed strongly that the fate of prisoners is compounded by health
hazards due to the bizarre and unkempt nature of prisons in the country.
According
to him, the situation is “no more about just taking people through
punishment but it’s about inflicting even health problems on them.” |
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