Tag Archives: PRISON OFFICER

Prison officer shot dead by highway robbers over GH¢340

Robbers strike on Bonsu-Brimso-Apedwa stretch Angry robbers shot prison officer in the left eye Police mount special operation to arrest robbery gang An officer of the Ghana Prisons Service, Chief Officer Francis Dzaka Mawunyo, has been shot dead by a gang of three highway robbers on the Asiakwa-Apedwa stretch on …

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Director calls on Ghanaians to fight for removal of vagrancy laws

Ghanaians have been urged to speak for the removal of statutory laws that criminalise poverty in order to decongest prisons across the country. The Deputy Director of Prisons and Officer-in-Charge of the Kumasi Central Prisons, Asamoah Fenning, who made the call said it is inhumane to keep petty offenders in …

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Prison Officer, Others killed In Fatal Accident At Akyem Asafo

A 49-year-old female Prison Officer and two others have all died in a deadly motor accident at Akyem Asafo stretch of the Accra to Kumasi Highways in the Eastern Region. The deceased Prison officer has been identified as Faustina Bekoe. The others Juliana Nyanteh,63, a passenger and Thomas Agyare, 31, …

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