The Senior Correctional Centre (SCC) in Accra has engaged Zonda Tec Ghana Limited, an automobile company, to explore training opportunities aimed at equipping juveniles at the Centre with modern auto-mechanic skills.
The initiative is intended to support the Think Prisons 360° agenda, a skills development and transformation programme of the Ghana Prisons Service.
Madam Yayra Ashong Mettle, Deputy Director of Prisons and Officer-In-Charge of the SCC, led a delegation to Zonda Tec to strengthen institutional ties and seek the company’s collaboration in building the technical capacity of inmates.
She was accompanied by Mr James Akolbire, Deputy Superintendent of Prisons (DSP), and Mr Alfred Nii Arday Ankrah, Assistant Superintendent of Prisons (ASP).
The visit also sought to foster collaboration under the Think Prisons 360° agenda and to modernise the mechanic workshop at the Senior Correctional Centre, where juveniles receive hands-on training in auto mechanics.
Madam Ashong Mettle appealed to Zonda Tec to support the Centre, stressing the importance of equipping juveniles with employable auto-mechanic skills to advance the Ghana Prisons Service’s mandate of reformation and rehabilitation.
She explained that the Think Prisons 360° initiative was a strategic, transformative agenda aimed at repositioning the Service as a world-class, humane and development-oriented institution.
The initiative is anchored on five core pillars: welfare of staff and inmates; agricultural mechanisation; industrialisation; business and wealth creation; and strategic relations, with a focus on special interventions and partnerships.
Mr Leon Leon, Branch Manager of Zonda Tec at Dzorwulu, reaffirmed the company’s commitment to training young people in Ghana to acquire modern auto-mechanic skills.
Speaking on behalf of Madam Yang Yang, Chief Executive Officer of Zonda Tec Ghana, he said management would deliberate on the proposal to operationalise the partnership between the Ghana Prisons Service and the company.
