{"id":133278,"date":"2015-07-10T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=133278"},"modified":"2015-07-10T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T11:15:18","slug":"125-prisoners-to-be-released-in-brong-ahafo-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=133278","title":{"rendered":"125 prisoners to be released in Brong Ahafo Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Brong Ahafo Regional Amnesty Board will today release 125 prisoners in the region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is in accordance with the amnesty granted by President John Mahama who released a total of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/30\/mahama-releases-900-prisoners\/#sthash.zgXdNUtr.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">900 prisoners<\/a><\/strong><\/span> on May day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;iVEef5cLdWjcIdMdtwIFMZRTZiSiE0J4&#8243;]Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> the head of Public Affairs at the Sunyani Central Prison, ASP Zeniel said the prisoners will be released after paper works on their release were concluded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to ASP Zeniel, all he set for their release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said 17 prisoners will be released from the Yeji prison, 29 at Duayaw Nkwanta, Kenyasi will release 51 with the Sunyani Central Prisons releasing 28.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the inmates who could not get the consideration of the amnesty board are appealing to President Mahama to fulfill his promise of improving the conditions at the country\u2019s prisons.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In another development, President Mahama has assured the \u00a0Ghana Prisons Service government <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/01\/mahama-to-increase-budget-for-prisons-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">will\u00a0increase their budget allocation<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to help the service better manage its affairs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cIn the next budget cycle, I intend to push for an increase in resource allocation for the Ghana Prisons service,\u201d he indicated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Kojo Brefo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brong Ahafo Regional Amnesty Board will today release 125 prisoners in the region. This is in accordance with the amnesty granted by President John Mahama who released a total of\u00a0900 prisoners on May day. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;iVEef5cLdWjcIdMdtwIFMZRTZiSiE0J4&#8243;]Speaking to Citi News the head of Public Affairs at the Sunyani Central Prison, ASP Zeniel said the prisoners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-133278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}