The Minister of the Interior, Mr Hackman Owusu-Agyemang on Friday appointed a five-member committee to investigate the circumstances leading to the escape of a prisoner from the Nsawam Medium Security Prisons.

The Committee, which has one week to complete its work, is under the chairmanship of Mr Thomas Broni, Deputy Minister of the Interior, a statement signed by Mr E.P.D. Barnes, Chief Director of the Ministry, said.

Other members of the committee are representatives of the National Security Council, Bureau of National Investigation, Criminal Investigations Department of Ghana Police Service and Ghana Prisons Service.

Mr Richard Kuuire, Director General of Ghana Prisons Service, said preliminary investigations indicated that John Malm, who was jailed last April for 15 years for robbery reported sick and was taken the Nsawam Government Hospital in the company of three other convicts.

He said Malm was handcuffed with one of the convicts but they were separated when they got to the hospital since they were going to see different Doctors.

The Director General, who was speaking in an interview over a local radio station, said Malm bolted in a get-away Peugeot 307 saloon car, adding that cabbies at the Nsawam Hospital Taxi Rank gave a hot chase but they lost track of him at Kasoa because the car he was using was faster.