News:
March 28, 2020
Ranking member on Defense and Interior, James Agalga is advocating for the President Nana Akufo-Addo’s led Government to consider locking down the country immediately to save the citizenry from being infected with the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the Builsa North lawmaker, he has been following many calls from professionals and organizations including the Ghana Health Service for a lockdown and government must adhere to their calls since they are the professionals on the field.
He further pointed out in an interview with Journalists that considering the number of affected persons with the coronavirus, there are clear indications that the situation of disease is not getting any better but rather going from bad to worse.
And in addition, urged the President to consider pardoning prison inmates who are almost done with their sentences and those with petty or minor offences.
“The current number of inmates across the country is about fourteen thousand which in actual sense is made up of a capacity of eight thousand prisoners”.
Mr. Agalga noted that it would ease the pressure in Ghanaian prisons as it would be a disaster for the country if there should be any incident of coronavirus at any of our prisons.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com