Don't Deprive Prisoners From Having Sex, Its Their Basic Need Too--MCE Ebow Appiah
Don't Deprive Prisoners From Having Sex, Its Their Basic Need Too
Freeman Koryekpor 
Municipal Chief Executive (MCE) of Komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem Municipality (KEEA) in the Central Region, Mr Solomon Ebow Appiah, stated that it is not rights to deprive prisoners fro having sex, stressing that having sex is the basic needs for all mankinds.
"When one looks at the Abraham Maslow hierarchy of needs, it talks about basic needs including sex and that when people are in the prison for as long as 15, 20,60years without sex, then one is depriving them of their basic need," the NDC stressed.
According to him, If the country is not careful the laws which forbid lesbianism and gayism will be flaunted in prison because people may come to the prison to learn these acts, because there is no opportunity for them(Prisoners) to satisfy their basic needs, which is sex.
Mr Appiah made the appeal at the maiden non-formal education graduation ceremony of 43 inmates of the Ankaful Prisons in the komenda Edina Eguafo Abrem municipality of the central region
In an interview with Peace News'Sally Ngissah, he urged that the country must find a way to brainstorm to find ways to include sex as a basic need for the inmates after giving them all the other needs.
He revealed the line between prisoners and the free man is very thin, hence those in the prisons are just like us, so if we do not make the prison yard and the lives of the inmates very conducive, then invariably we are creating problems for the country.
He called on all to come together to support the Prisoners as they were being trained to go out to change their lives, thus, "the prison is intended to reform and to reintegrate them into the community".
The Central Regional Deputy Director of Prisons who also doubles as the QIC of the Maximum security prison DDP Robin Kwesi Asamoah Fenning on his part thanked the non-formal education sector for the training.
He appealed for urgent help from Stakeholders, benevolents, religious bodies, NGOs, corporate institutions among others to come to their aid to enable them to register the 43 inmates to sit for the basic education certificate examination this year.
