Ghana Prisons Service

And that they will appear before you for paying something that they should.

The 2025 Auditor General's report has cited the Ghana Prison Service for the misapplication of £277,625 in motivation funds meant for inmates engaged in paid labour activities for Zumilai on Ghana Limited.

According to the report, the funds which were intended as motivation for inmates engaged were diverted and used for unrelated expenses, including funeral donations, bath repairs and water purchases.

The Auditor General has flagged the expenditure as a breach of financial regulations and has called for appropriate action.

So they paid them three Ghana CDs less per day for the feeding allowance.

The auditors noted that for the inmate motivation, a total amount of 277,625 Ghana CDs should have been made to the inmate for the period they were engaged.

But the Ghana Prison Service did not make any payment to the inmate.

The motivation money was spent on funeral donations, purchase of water, tuna, sandwiches, repair of baths, and other unrelated expenditure rather than supporting the inmate with the training, counseling, and reintegration.

Rafiq reporting to us from Wa.

Now, Director General of the Ghana Prison Service, Patience Bafubone, has cited a lack of support from families as reason why many ex-converts returned to the prisons.

The Auditor General observed in a special report that a number of former inmates from 15 out of the 45 prisons returned to incarceration between 2020 and 2025 despite the implementation of an inmate support program.

Addressing the concern, the Public Accounts Committee, the Director General, Patience Bafuboni, explained the challenges the implementation process is currently facing.

And so you perfect a lot of waste goals there.

So on paper, the amount may look huge, but if you divide it across the country and then you measure the wastage, you realize it's not making any impact.

So it is for this reason that as a Ghana prison service under the current directorate, we realized that some of these trainings had gone on for many years.

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The proposed date for the competition no year from 11th to 20th November.

It involves all the security services, that is Ghana Armed Forces, Ghana Police Service, the National Fire Service, Ghana Prison Service, the Ghana Revenue Authority Customs Division, and the Ghana Immigration Service.

Um, these security services, all the state security services will be participating in, uh, eight major sporting disciplines that are all in male and female category.

Uh, the eight major, you know, disciplines are athletics, um, basketball, uh, hockey, soccer, table tennis, hand, um, handball, volleyball, and tug of war.

Uh, some basketball matches will also go on in the University of Ghana campus, Legon.

The soccer matches will be at the University of Ghana.

So let's say University of Ghana, Airwork, Ghana Prison Service, um, Sports Complex at their head office, the National Hockey Stadium, and then the Ghana National Fire Service Training School will also host some games.

Um, just like any other sporting, you know, game, there will be medals at stake for each and every discipline.

Presenting the figures, Deputy Minister for Works, Housing and Water Resources, Jezila Tete Agbutui, disclosed that total outstanding debt to the agency stand at about 15.3 million Ghana cedars accumulated over nine years with only 1.1 million ghana cities recovered so far of that amount 2.5 million ghana cities is owned by central public institutions including security agencies health facilities wall 7.5 million is owned by regional coordinating councils metropolitan municipal and district assemblies and other agencies breaking it down 72 ghana police service stations and posts all the ghana water 235 million 898 000 60 hospitals of 472 million nine hundred and seventy thousand point twenty nine 56 senior high schools owe $978,280,025 and 47 basic schools owe about $186,000.

The Ghana Armed Forces, Ghana Prison Service and Ghana National Ambulance Service were also cited among debtors.

Public Accounts Committee Chairperson Abinose Asare expressed shock that police stations could be allowed to accumulate such arrears, describing the situation as embarrassing to the security service.

The committee wrote that 2.5 million Ghana citizens owed by 295 listed public institutions must be recovered within 30 days, describing the directive as non-negotiable.

In the absence of meaningful engagement and a cred- a credible and a feasible payment plan within two weeks, the leadership and members of the association will have no option but to consider and pursue other legitimate avenues available to them to pro-protect their interests and to seek settlement of monies duly owned to them.

The Public Accounts Committee of Parliament has given the Community Water and Sanitation Agency a thirty-day ultimatum to recover two point five million owned by more than two hundred and ninety public institutions For water supplied, the indebted institutions include metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies, the Ghana Prison Service, the Ghana Police Service, the Ghana Armed Forces, the National Ambulance Service, hospitals and senior high schools.

The directive was issued on Wednesday, October seven, after the agency appeared before the committee.

The total outstanding debt stands at fifteen point three million Ghana cedis, accumulated over about nine years, out of which one point fifty million Ghana cedis has been recovered.

[foreign language] She's my role model.

[foreign language] DGP, Director General of Ghana Prison Service, Mrs. Patience Baffour-Bonney.

Mama, good afternoon.

[foreign language] Mama, are you a senior? Oh, okay.