Tema court shooting was to maintain order – Prisons Service

A shooting incident that occurred at the Tema court on Monday morning was to separate a fight between two convicts, the Public Relations Officer of the *Ghana Prisons Service, *Vitalis Ayeh has explained.

Mr Aiyeh said, “It is true that there was an incident at the Tema court but it was to check security. 5 prisoners were sent from the Nsawam prison to court. 3 have already been handed a sentence and 2 were standing trial. But they were given an additional sentence of 20 years and that didn’t go well with 4 of the prisoners against one, and that brought some confusion and we had to maintain order by giving warning shots.”

“There was a crowd massing in so in order to secure the inmates, the prison officer had to fire the shots… If you have people serving over 100 years, the most important thing was to ensure their security,” Mr Aiyeh said on Eyewitness News.