UNDP Offers Materials To Prisons

The United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, Cameroon has handed some hygiene and sanitation materials to the National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms as a preventive response strategy to limiting the propagation of the coronavirus in some prisons in the country. They were handed by the Deputy Resident Representative of UNDP, Alassane Ba with the Vice Chairperson of the Commission, Prof. James Mouangue Kobila receiving the materials in a ceremony on May 14, 2020. Some prisons in five regions will benefit from the offer and they include the prisons of Yaounde, Douala, Banenda, Buea, Mbalmayo and Maroua. 
Handing the gifts, Alassane Ba said the gesture which is the outcome of the partnership between UNDP, the Human Rights Commission, the Ministry of Justice and the National Youth Council falls within the framework of preventing the spread of the virus in the country with particular attention to prisons. He noted that the materials amongst others comprise 18,800 face masks, 275 mobile washing points, 9,400 detergents of 1kg each, 315 cartons of savon, 3,500 hand gloves, 9,400 hydro alcoholic sanitizers and thermoflashes. The UNDP Deputy Resident Representative equally lauded the April 15, 2020 decision by the President of the Republic relating to the commutation and remittance of prison sentences. 
On his part, the Vice Chairperson of the Commission, Prof James Mouangue Kobila while expressing gratitude for the gifts said they will be used for the disinfection of detention centres and the maintenance of sanitary conditions. He cited the African Charter on Human and People's Rights...