A shooting incident that occurred at the Tema court on Monday morning
was to separate a fight between two convicts, the Public Relations
Officer of the Ghana Prisons Service, Vitalis Ayeh has explained.
Gunshots were heard from the Court premises after a proceeding that saw
some convicts receiving additional years to their initial sentence of 120
years.
Some had suggested that the shots were fired by some unknown persons who
had stormed the court to free the convicts, but according to Mr.
Vitalis Aiyeh, that is untrue.
“It is true that there was an incident at the Tema court but it was to
check security. Five prisoners were sent from the Nsawam prison to court. Three
have already been handed a sentence and two were standing trial. But they were
given an additional sentence of 20 years and that didn’t go well with four of
the prisoners against one, and that brought some confusion and we had to
maintain order by giving warning shots.”
“There was a crowd massing in so in order to secure the inmates, the
prison officer had to fire the shots… If you have people serving over 100
years, the most important thing was to ensure their security,” Mr Aiyeh said on
Eyewitness News.
He said the convicts, who are in jail for armed robbery, are currently
safe in the custody of the Prisons Service at the Nsawam Prisons.
Source: Citifmonline.com/Ghana
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