The Ghana Business Hub Logistics (GBH) has facilitated the freeing of four inmates of the Sekondi Prison who were serving prison terms for their inability pay the fines imposed on them by the court.
The company paid a sum of ten thousand Ghana cedis (GH¢10,000) to clear these fines imposed on the four inmates.
The now-freed inmates, namely Sylvester Amihere, John Otoo, Ibrahim Kawudaka and Nicholas Kobinah had individual fines ranging from six hundred cedis (GH¢600.00) to one thousand, six hundred cedis (GH¢1,600.00), with their jail terms equivalent to six months to one year jail term.
The CEO of Ghana Business Hub Logistics, Paul Elom Darko highlighted that this act was motivated by an appeal during a donation exercise to the prison about a month ago by the prison authorities who asked for their help to decongest the prison by paying off the fines of some inmates.
“We accepted their plea and after deliberations with the board of the company, the organization decided to pay off the fines of these four inmates in our capacity to allow the decongestion at the prisons yard,” he told Nana Fynn of Angel News.
He disclosed that as part their social corporate responsibility, the organization has taken upon themselves to settle the fines for at least one or two inmates every month in order to help decongest the prison.
The Paralegal Officer at the Sekondi Central Prison, Superintendent Ibrahim Yakubu opened up that they lack infrastructure deficit at the prison facility that will equip inmates acquire training including carpentry, and other handiworks.
He asked individuals and other organisations to assist them with other machines and materials for the crafts work in the prison as well as support the prison in other ways they can.
He further encouraged organizations and the general public to take a cue from what GBH Logistics has done to also pay off the fines of some of the inmates, as he highlighted that this would help decongest the prison as well as help instill discipline in the inmates.
He further adviced the inmates to be of good behavior since that would guarantee them being recommended to individuals and organisations to settle their fines for them.
The four freed inmates expressed their utmost gratitude to GBH Logistics the timely intervention and promised not to repeat the offences that sent them to prison.
According to them life in prison cells have instilled discipline with lots of lessons that would serve as a deterrent to them.
