Prisoners drive sick man to hospital

Mr Ambrose Imoro Salifu, the Brong-Ahafo Region Prisons Commander, has commended eight inmates of Sunyani Prisons for their efforts to help save the life of a man who had engaged them to work on his farm but died on the way to hospital.

He told newsmen that the deceased, Mr Osei Wusu of the Sunyani West District branch of the Church of Pentecost, on Tuesday engaged the prisoners to work on his farm at Esreso near Odumase in Sunyani District but collapsed on the farm.

Mr Salifu, an Assistant Superintendent of Prisons, said the two officers, Sergeant Gofred Nimoh and Corporal A.S.B. Yakubu who accompanied the prisoners, became confused.

''In such a circumstance some of the prisoners, if not all, would have bolted but they rather carried the old man for about two kilometres to the road-side where his Nissan Pick-up vehicle was parked.''

Mr Salifu said none of the two escorting officers could drive so one of the prisoners, Nii Ayi Richard, 23, drove the vehicle to the hospital.

ADP Salifu said: "This is a clear testimony that with adequate financial resources, logistics like tools and equipment and moral encouragement, majority of prisoners in the country would be reformed."

He, therefore, appealed to philanthropists, charitable organizations and the general public to assist the service with logistics.

Nii Ayi told GNA that that naturally, as prisoners, they longed for their freedom but they did not think of taking advantage of the situation to escape "because human life is more valuable than our comfort.''

''That is why I humbled myself in the spirit of sacrifice to drive the car with the view to saving the elder's life.''