Kenyasi (B/A) July 18, GNA - The Kenyasi Prisons Settlement Camp in the Asutifi District of Brong-Ahafo was a scene of mixed feeling when 47 prisoners regained their freedom under the Presidential amnesty granted recently. While the freed prisoners beamed with happiness for their release, other inmates shed tears, not because of their continued incarceration but for the fact that they would be missing their friends and colleagues. The amnesty covered convicts of minor offences and prisoners on parole.

The beneficiaries included one Kwaku Fokuo, 38, who assisted a farmer, who had engaged them on his farm, when he collapsed early this year and rushed him to the hospital. A combined team of Police, Prisons and Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) officials screened the 47 beneficiaries before their release. The team advised the ex-convicts not to take advantage of their release to cause trouble because of the grave consequences if they were put before the courts again for any criminal or civil offences. The ex-convicts expressed gratitude to the President for the amnesty and promised to turn over a new leaf to reciprocate the gesture.