Ghana’s Vice President Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has served as the Reviewing Officer at the graduation parade for Cadet Course Intakes 33, 34 and 35 at the Prison Officers Training School in Fumso on 30 October 2026, where she commissioned the graduates as Assistant Superintendents of Prisons.
The ceremony was attended by the Minister for the Interior, Hon. Muntaka Mohammed-Mubarak, the Director-General of Prisons, Patience Baffoe-Bonnie, and other officials.
The Vice President reaffirmed government’s commitment to improving prison conditions and strengthening rehabilitation, highlighting increased inmate feeding allowances, the completion of the Nsawam remand prison, the commissioning of a 300-capacity prison in Damongo, and reforms under the Community Service Act, 2026 (Act 1175), and the Prisons Service (Parole) Regulations, 2026.
She also urged the newly commissioned officers to uphold discipline, fairness and respect for the dignity of persons in their custody.
