A Businessman and Philanthropist, Chief Kofi Ohene has made a donation worth thousands of Ghana Cedis to the James Camp Prison at North Ridge, Accra, as part of his pre-celebration plans towards his 60th birthday.

Chief, as he is affectionately called, turns 60 on Sunday, November 21, 2021.

Among the items he donated to the reformative James Camp Prison are 300 packs of Jollof rice with chicken, bags of rice and maize, boxes of sunflower cooking oil, toilet rolls, cartons of milk, buckets of washing power, packs of sugar, cartons of assorted soft drinks, canned meat and fish and bottles of Honey Citron and Ginger Tea.

Presenting the items on Friday, November 19, 2021, Chief said he was thrilled to join the inmates of the James Camp Prison whom he called his brothers and sisters, having received the blessings of God for the past 60 years.

He said he couldn’t have chosen any other better place than the James Camp Prison, stressing that “whatever I am doing today is for God and country”.

The Ag. 2IC, Supt. Emmanuel Darfour, received the items on behalf of the Camp Prison.

He expressed the gratitude of the authorities and inmates of the Camp Prison to Chief who was accompanied by some family members and friends for his kind gesture and was hopeful that the items will go a long way to putting smiles on the faces of the inmates whom the state spends GH₵1.80p on each of them a day.

Chief and his entourage later paid a courtesy visit to the Deputy Director of Prisons and Officer-In-Charge of the James Camp Prison, Raphael Tuekpe, who also thanked them for donating to the inmates.

In the view of the OIC Tuekpe, donations from private individuals help inmates to integrate properly into society after serving their custodial sentence and urged the public to emulate the kind gesture of Chief.

“Donations like this make the inmates have the feel of belongingness so that when they go out they don’t wage war on the society. But if we are not treating them like this and we shun them, anytime they go out, they become peeved and when they are peeved, the consequences are not good at all as they will not spare us. So, it is good that we will come to their aid from time to time”, he noted.