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DAILY HERITAGE FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 2018
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in all the details of
daily life — William Morris
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FOREIGN
BUSINESS
Zimbabwe's Mnangagwa
blames Grace
Mugabe faction for
blast
PG.04
Ghana’s growth
prospects positive –
IMF
ARTS
& ENT
SPORTS
Jason collaborates
with Deon
PG.13
Young tennis players
to be awarded
PG.10
PG.15
MTN Ghana awards
App developers
BY BENJAMIN TANDOH
THE CHIEF Marketing
Officer of MTN Ghana,
Mr Noel Kojo-Ganson,
has stated that his outfit
is committed to giving
full and equal access to women in the
area of Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Mathematics.
He acknowledged the importance
of technology and innovation in the
development of the country, saying,
“MTN is championing a project for
women in technology, where young
girls receive mentorship.
“This year, our focus
was also to encourage more
females to take up app development;
in view of that
we introduced a new category
to reward the best female
developers,” he said.
Speaking at the closing
of an award ceremony following
the MTN Apps
Challenge Competition Version
5.0 in Accra on
Wednesday, June 27, 2018,
Mr Kojo-Ganson urged
app developers to continue
to innovate by developing
locally relevant applications
to stay relevant.
“The MTN Apps challenge,
since [its] inception
some five years ago, has
given several[sic] Ghanaian
youth the opportunity to
develop and take up challenges
in our economy,” he said.
He continued that, “In line with
MTN’s vision to lead the delivery of
a bold new digital world, MTN will
continue to take advantage of the
rapid technological advancement to
encourage the development of exciting
mobile applications which are relevant
to the local market.”
Background
After series of roadshows, more
than 190 applications were received
and applicants competed in three categories,
namely mobile app (Education,
Business, Entertainment, and
Lifestyle), Internet of Things, and
animated videos.
Out of over 100 projects received
after the launch, 48 made it into the
second round of auditions. App developers
were invited to meet a panel
of judges, made up of experts from
the Mobile Apps industry and academia,
for the final vetting process.
The candidates took turns to
present their Apps to the judges,
who based their assessment of the
applications on their user-friendliness,
robustness, compatibility, security,
app authentication mechanisms,
operating platform, best practices
and ingenuity. At the end of the vetting
process, 25 finalists were shortlisted
for the awards.
• CONTINUE ON BACK PAGE
•Overall winner receiving a cheque from
MTN CEO- Selorm Adadevoh (R) and Chief
Marketing Officer, Noel Kojo-Ganson
Nsawam Prisons overpopulated
by 337.5%
BY MUNTALLA INUSAH
muntalla.inusah@dailyheritage.com.gh
INFORMATION AVAIL-
ABLE to the DAILY HER-
ITAGE indicates that the
Nsawam Medium Security Prisons
designed to house 800 inmates
currently holds 3,500
inmates.
In percentage terms, the
population has increased by
337.5%.
Deputy Director of Prisons
for the Eastern Region, Mr Isaac
Kofi Egyiri, made this known to
the DAILY HERITAGE
when the ‘Justice for All Programme
(JFA)’ team visited the
Nsawam Prisons, where some
inmates were discharged under
the programme.
“Currently as we speak, we
have over 3,500 inmates at the
prisons and the holding capacity
has been 800. You can image the
rate of over-population in the
prisons.
“We all know that modern
civil society works to uphold the
basic and fundamental rights of
the citizens, prisoners inclusive,
and that is what Ghana Prison
Service has tried to uphold to
ensure that the prisoners have
access to justice,” he stated.
“We are delighted to have
collaborators who are always
willing to come and support us.
It is an open secret that the
Nsawam Prison is overpopulated
and has remand prisoners
forming substantial portion of it
and therefore justice for all is
one of the potent means by
which we use to decongest the
prisons.”
Mentally-challenged
Touching on mentally-troubled
inmates, the Deputy Eastern
Regional Prisons Commander
said “we occasionally
have mentally-challenged inmates
who were brought in already
challenged and some too
due to stress and frustration also
develop it in the prisons, but
whichever way, we have competent
medical staff who handle
the cases and refer them to appropriate
quarters for redress.”
Six freed at Nsawam
Prisons under JFA
A total of six remand prisoners,
including four murder suspects,
were freed under the
Justice for All programme at the
Nsawam Medium Security Prisons,
with 24 others receiving
bail.
The six, Kweku Appiah, 47,
Kofi Ampadu, 32, Michael
Kweku Obeng, 30, and Omaru
Manu, 30, had all spent over
four years on remand for an alleged
murder without trial.
The rest are Jibril Alidu, 30,
and Zilah Kwasi, 26, who had
spent six years and five-and-ahalf
years respectively on remand
for robbery and narcotic
offence.
On Friday, at the Nsawam
Prisons, three judges with the
Justice for All Programme, led
by a Justice of the Court of Appeal,
Justice Clemence Honyenuga,
visited the Nsawam
Prisons to deal with cases of
persons on remand.
Some 24 people were
granted bail with surety out of
the total of 50 inmates who
were lined up to be considered.
After the exercise, 18 were denied
bail and asked to re-apply
the next time while two cases
were struck out.