Ambassador Extraordinaire of Prisons, Ibrahim Oppong Kwarteng, has expressed optimism that sensitizing students about the consequences of crime through his anti-crime documentary, will help to prevent students in both tertiary and pre-tertiary institutions from engaging in crime.
He thus appealed to government to support his crime prevention initiative to reduce the number of students being convicted for various offences.
[contextly_sidebar id=”uvxUcMShctupjSh4Rmy2IzTgKNtchvUh”]Mr. Kwarteng, who is also the Executive Director of Crime Check Foundation, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), was speaking during his organisation’s visit to Insaniyya Senior High School at Kasoa in the Central Region, to sensitize students on the conditions in the country’s prisons.
The students watched Mr. Kwarteng’s new anti-crime documentary, “Life in Prison” which contained numerous prisoner confessions and pieces of advice from prisoners to the public.
The students were grateful to Mr. Kwarteng’s NGO for screening the documentary at the school.
The Headmaster of the school, I K Mensah, was full of praise for the video and the lecture, adding that the factual and emotional nature of the video would have an impact on the students not to engage in crime.
He has thus urged the Foundation to quickly extend the programme to other schools across the country.
The Director General of the Ghana Education Service, (GES) David Kor, has already endorsed the initiative and asked the Foundation to show the prison documentary in pre-tertiary institutions across the country.
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By Philip Nii Lartey/citifmonline.com/Ghana