Government will convert E-blocks into prisons to absorb corrupt appointees - NPP man

A picture of one of the school buildings constructed during John Mahama's tenure

The current government will be forced to convert all the Community Day Senior High Schools in the country into prisons to absorb corrupt former government appointees who served under Mahama led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration even if the Nsawam medium prison is full.

“All the Day Schools Mahama constructed complete or incomplete, I can assure you that this government will convert them into prisons and fill them with corrupt NDC appointees”, Alex Opoku Mensah said.

According to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) communication team member in the Ashanti Region, Mr. Alex Opoku Mensah, former government appointees under erstwhile Mahama administration should brace themselves for jail even if the Nsawam Prisons is full as claimed by the lawyer of the embattled businessman, Philip Assibit.

“We will arrest them for prosecution and possible jail every one even if the prisons are full”, the Spokesperson the party’s Regional Chairman revealed.

“The Akufo-Addo government will jail them one by one and put them into these schools we are about to turn them into prisons”, the outspoken communicator spoke on Kumasi based Nhyira FM.

Speaking to the conviction of a top government official of the previous administration; Mr. Abuga Pele and Philip Assibit serving a six and twelve-year jail terms respectively, the communicator welcomed the judgment as good for the country’s democracy.

Mr. Pele, who was a former NDC lawmaker for Chiana Paga and also the former National Coordinator of the Ghana Youth Employment and Entrepreneurial Agency (GYEEDA), was convicted on 19 counts including ‘willfully causing financial loss to the state’.

His accomplice, Philip Assibit, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Goodwill International Group, was also found guilty on six counts including defrauding by false pretenses and accordingly sentenced to 12 years

Their lawyers pleaded the sentence should be reduced since the country’s largest prisons Nsawam Meduim Prisons is full to accommodate more criminals.

But the NPP communicator said this is one of the flimsy excuses to be advanced by counsels of the accused persons.