Chigabatia tours Tenkodogo prisons in Burkina Faso( Daily Graphic Monday March 17, 2008. Page 32)

Mrs. Agnes Chigabatia (second left), the Deputy Upper East Regional Minister being assisted by the Regional Prisons Commander, Mrs. Florence Yeboah Acheampong(left) to present a gift to the Director in-charge of the Central East Province of Burkina Faso, Mr. Sibiry Neya after touring the prisons in Tenkodogo.

Mrs. Yeboah Acheampong accompanied the deputy regional minister to Tenkodogo join the people to celebrate the International Women’s Day which fell on March 8.

While there, the Upper East Regional Prisons Commander and other members of the delegation seized the opportunity to visit her counterparts and share ideas on operations of the service in that country.

Mr. Neya informed the delegation that apart from the male prisoners who are fed once a day, women and children were fed thrice a day

At the female section, the delegation was shown a 72 year old women who was serving a two-month jail sentence for perpetrating female genital mutilation.

Mrs. Chigabatia took the opportunity to advice the woman not to engage in such acts that brought her to prison to which she obliged.