The Police Never Gave Me Food In Prison – Oliver Vormawor Reveals
Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the convener of the #FixTheCountry Movement, is accusing the police of starving him while in custody. He said the officers refused to give him food even when he begged for it.
According to an Accra-based media, he had to rely on his family and friends to provide him with food.
People he met in jail, according to the #FixTheCountry convenor, had not eaten in five days or more because no friend or family visited them.
“… it’s inhuman as far as I’m concerned for people to go these number of days without food through no choice of their own and that’s why we are here. I met people who had not eaten for five days, but when I complained about it, I was told by the Police that the people there are used to it. …..for all my 35 days in there, not once did the Police come and offer me food, that this is the food that the state has provided them to give to inmates. I had to wait on family and friends who would come and give me food. So that’s the experience of a lot of people in there. There are some who have gone a year and two years and have never received any family coming to see them,” he is quoted.
When Barker-Vormawor went to offer meals to convicts at the Ashaiman Police Station, where he was held, he prepared these remakes.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Police Service has expressed its displeasure with Barker-attempt Vormawor’s to feed detainees.
The decision by the #FixTheCountry convenor, according to the police, is against the service’s regular practice because the state is responsible for feeding detainees.
It also claimed that allowing civilians to feed detainees has security concerns and that before family members are allowed to feed inmates, they must go through police scrutiny to avoid incidences of poisoning.
