Ghana Signs Prisoner Transfer Deal with the UK

Ghana has signed a Prisoner transfer deal with the United Kingdom (UK).
The deal was outdoored at a ceremony in Accra Thursday.
The development means that Ghana and the UK can transfer to home countries citizens of their respective countries who are incarcerated within the boundaries of each other.
Addressing the Media on the feat, deputy attorney general Dominic Ayine said the UK is among the leading countries Ghana is entering into such a deal with.
“ Ghana passed the transfer of convicted prisoners act in 2007 and the act allows the country to receive Ghanaians who have been sentenced to prisons abroad and also to transfer out of Ghana to any receiving country prisoners who are residence of that country.
“ The requirement of the law is that we have to enter into a bilateral arrangement with these countries so that they can transfer prisoners to us and then we can also transfer their citizens back to them when they have been incarcerated in Ghana,” he explained.