The Interior Minister-designate, Mohammed Mubarak Muntaka, is asking for the private sector to partner the government to set up some industries in Ghana’s prisons to foster the skill training for inmates.
He believes the initiative will go a long way to help most of the inmates to acquire some skills by the time they exit the four corners of the correctional facilities.
Muntaka has said that the practice has been made in other jurisdictions where it has been successful, urging that same can be replicated in Ghana.
The Member of Parliament for Asawase made the comments when he appeared before the Appointments Committee of Parliament for his vetting.
“There are so many examples that we can see around in the UK, Singapore and even our own neighbouring Singapore where they are using private public partnership to deal with most of the issues in the prisons,” he said.
Muntaka also disclosed that “I’m reliably informed that when you go to Kenya, every number plate you find on a car is coming from the prisons because they give opportunity for industry to build these factories within the prison to serve multiple purpose, to give them training, skills and income, and obviously, because they are prisoners, the payment are not as if the factories were set up outside.”
He mentioned popular prisons like Nsawam and Ankarful where there are vast lands for such projects to take place.
“The Nsawam Prison for example, they have vast land, go to Ankarful, they have vast land. If we are able to do that with government support and the rest of us in the multi-sectorial bit of what we are doing, it is going to help them,” he explained.
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