The Action Chapel International (ACI) lent a helping hand to inmates of the Kumasi Central Prison at the weekend.

The church presented them with two-hundred-and-fifty bags of rice, twenty-five(25) cartons of frozen chicken and twenty(20) gallons of cooking oil worth over GHC7000.

Pastor Victor Kusi Boateng, who presented the items on behalf of the founder of Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams said as a religious entity, it was mindful of their obligation to the vulnerable in society during the festive season.

The church, he added, will also extend the gesture to other prisons across the country.

“Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, my proud father who is the presiding Archbishop of the Action Chapel International all over the world, who has seen the need that Prisoners should enjoy as much as we are also enjoying during this Christmas festivities in our various houses. And that is why he sent over 250 bags of rice and 25 cartons of chicken to feed these people and to make them also happy as we all celebrate in our various homes”, the head pastor of the Asuoyeboa branch of the Power Chapel Worldwide told journalists after presenting the items to inmates.

Receiving the items on behalf of the inmates, the Ashanti Regional Chaplain of the Ghana Prisons Service, Reverend Canon Supt. Paa Kwesi Ansah, commended the church for their generosity.

He called on other philanthropists and groups to emulate the kind gesture and said the government alone could not shoulder all national responsibilities.

The Kumasi Central Prison currently has an inmate population of over 1700