Solomon Ebow Appiah, the municipal chief executive of Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem Municipality (KEEA), claims that the Abraham Maslow hierarchy of needs mentions basic needs, including sex, and that depriving someone of this basic need by keeping them in prison for 15, 20, or 60 years without having sex is against the law.
He claims that if the nation is not attentive, the laws that outlaw lesbianism and gayism will be flouted in jail because individuals may come to prison to learn about these activities since there is no way for them (prisoners) to satisfy their basic wants, which is sex.
At the first non-formal education graduation ceremony for 43 convicts from the Ankaful Prisons in the Komenda, Mr. Appiah made the request.
municipality comprising Edina, Eguafo, and Abirem in the Central region.
After providing for their other requirements, he challenged the nation to come up with ideas on how to make sex a basic requirement for the prisoners.
We once had criminal libel legislation, and it took the then-president to realize that it had been in place for a very long time, impeding the rights of journalists to report and hindering their job. Yet, to overturn that ban and bring forth today's freedom of information, it needed the initiative of the then-president and the unanimous support of Ghanaians. So, even if they are in jail, inmates should have the same rights to information and reporting as journalists do.
They are a part of us because, regardless of how long they spend, they will be freed one day after completing their sentence and will then return to their homes and the community "He made a hint.
According to him, there isn't much separating convicts from the free man; as a result, people behind bars are just like us. If we don't make the prison yard and the lives of the prisoners highly accommodating, then we are unavoidably causing issues for the nation.
He urged everyone to unite in favor of the prisoners, saying that "the jail is designed to rehabilitate and to reintegrate them into the community," as they were being prepared to go out and change their lives.
The deputy director of prisons for the Central Region, DDP Robin Kwesi Asamoah Fenning, thanked the non-formal education sector for the training and made an urgent plea for support from stakeholders, including charitable organizations, religious organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), corporate institutions, and others, to enable them to register the 43 prisoners to take the Basic Education Certificate Examination this year.
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