By Josepher Mbako Zakah*
The Secretary of State in the Ministry of Justice
in charge of Penitentiary Administration, Doh Jerome Penbaga, has reiterated
the importance of Human rights promotion and protection in Cameroon prisons.
Mr. Penbaga laid the emphasis in Buea, last
Friday September 16, during the graduation and epaulet-award ceremony of some
389 trainees from the National School of Penitentiary Administration, ENAP Buea,
which he chaired.
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| Graduates( kneeling) receive epaulets from officials |
He noted
that one of the functions of prison administrators is never to torture inmates,
but rather to help transform and prepare them for social reinsertion in society.
The
Secretary of state, who hailed the various categories of graduates, implored
them to be assiduous and disciplined to attract more successes in their career.
“The force
of any armed forces is discipline. The Penitentiary Administration is enriched by 389 staffers. We are grateful
because the work in the field is too much”, he told the press, noting that the
graduation of the trainees came shortly after Cameroon adopted a new penal code,
with alternative imprisonment terms.Mr. Penbaga assured that once the text of
application for the new modalities is available they will be respected.
He said the
specialization by ENAP trainees in domains such as health and agriculture is in
line with Cameroon government’s resolve to professionalize penitentiary administration
and rehabilitate the 79 prisons in Cameroon.
“These personnel with different specialties
besides increasing the manpower in our prisons have contributed strongly
in the realization of various
rehabilitation works in the 79 prison
establishments that are operational in the country”, the Secretary of State
said
For her
part, Administrator-General of Prisons and ENAP Director Mrs. Fonkem nee
Immaculate Manyi Fofung, congratulated
the graduates, urging them to serve and remain good ambassadors of the school.
The 389 graduates were of seven different batches: the 8th Batch of Trainee Administrators
of Prisons, 14th Batch of Trainee-Superintendent of Prison, the 7th
Batch of Student-Administrators of prison, the 2nd Batch of Student-Administrators
of prison civil engineers, 8th Batch of student superintendents of
prison, 3rd Batch of student superintendent of prison state-registered
nurses and 10th Batch of student -prison warders.
Chief warder
Mr. Nkelewa Christian told The Recorder that, the ENAP graduates are expected to be job-placed two weeks after their passing out
from the school.
Some
dignitaries who witnessed the colorful graduation included Southwest Governor
Bernard Okalia Bilai and the mayor of Buea,Ekema Patrick.
*Josepher Mbako Zakah is a University
of Buea Journalism intern
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