To continue the humanitarian work of her late twin brother, Christiana Atsupie Twasam, has visited inmates of the Awutu Camp Prison.
Late Christian Atsu Twasam was the single largest donor for the Crime Check Foundation’s Petty Offenders Project and Reintegration of Ex-convicts Project.
Atsu until his untimely death had released 113 inmates through the project.
Addressing the inmates, Atsupie encouraged them to be optimistic about life and have a reformed mind.
“I am not here to judge you, we all may have breached the laws in some way or the other, and just that we may not have been caught but that does not make us better than any of you here,” she said.
The Awutu Camp Prison was established in 1982 as one of the camp prisons to decongest the Central Prisons and engage in Agricultural production to supplement inmates’ diets and generate funds for the prison service.
The camp currently has an inmate number of 117.
Welcoming Atsupie and her delegation, Officer in Charge at the Awutu Camp Prison, Assistant Director of Prison, William Thomas Anaman, expressed his sympathy to her.
“Atsu was a friend of the prison service and to say his death is a great loss to the prison fraternity is an understatement, we were hoping he will continue to be with us but God knows best,” he said.
Encouraging the grieving twin, ADP Anaman said Atsu’s death could be God’s way of preparing Atsupie for greater work.
“Be calm and let everything you have lost be a symbol of God preparing you to enter into an era of your life where people will benefit from you” he noted.
Bemoaning the difficulties of the camp and the prison service in general, ADP Anaman reiterated the merger feeding fee paid to inmates.
“We cannot feed adults GHC1.80p a day which is woefully inadequate, these are grown men. Let’s do something to support them” he added.
Atsupie in her parting remarks assured the camp of her support.
“My being here today is the beginning of a relationship with the camp, we will be coming over periodically,” she said.
Christian Atsu died in Turkey early February 2023 after a devastating twin earthquake struck the country.
