Inmates of the Junior Boys Correctional Centrein Agona Swedru, one of the few Correctional Ccenters in the country faced with serious problems concerning their up-keeping and welfare.
The Director of the Center and Principal of the National Vocational Training Institute (NAVTCO) aimed at offering skill training to both inmates and members of the public, Mr. Banard B. Bananzi, who briefed ghananews.com disclosed that the Center has for some time now not received any subvention from the Government, forcing the inmates of the Center to live on the meager fees paid by students of the Vocational institute.
Narrating the Center’s ordeal to ghananews247.com, Mr. Bananzi noted that the situation has become a major problem to the Center and has therefore appealed to the Government to come to their aid .
He said as a signatory to the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child, it is unacceptable for the government to leave children who have come into contacts and conflict with law to their fate by refusing to cater for their up-keeping and welfare.
As if to add insults to their wound, the Centre was seriously hit by last Sunday’s rain storm, which destroying many properties in the town and claimed some lives.
By. Robert Ayanful