{"id":46020,"date":"2025-08-18T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=46020"},"modified":"2025-08-18T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:35:13","slug":"mahama-grants-amnesty-to-998-prisoners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/08\/18\/mahama-grants-amnesty-to-998-prisoners\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama grants amnesty to 998 prisoners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President John Dramani Mahama has granted amnesty to 998 prisoners across the country, following the recommendation of the Prisons Service Council, in consultation with the Council of State, and in accordance with Article 72(1) of the 1992 Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision forms part of the President\u2019s constitutional mandate to exercise the prerogative of mercy in deserving cases. A total of 1,014 inmates were recommended for amnesty, out of which 998 were approved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Presidential Spokesperson and Minister of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, confirmed the decision in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/citinewsroom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/prisoners-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1223874\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"f5f5f5\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #f5f5f5;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1005\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2025\/08\/IMG_4004-1005x1024.avif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46021 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2025\/08\/IMG_4004-1005x1024.avif 1005w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2025\/08\/IMG_4004-295x300.avif 295w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2025\/08\/IMG_4004-768x782.avif 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2025\/08\/IMG_4004.avif 1290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1005px) 100vw, 1005px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has granted amnesty to 998 prisoners across the country, following the recommendation of the Prisons Service Council, in consultation with the Council of State, and in accordance with Article 72(1) of the 1992 Constitution. The decision forms part of the President\u2019s constitutional mandate to exercise the prerogative of mercy in deserving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":40779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[9609,8657,622,12310,1461,192,2264,6566,10248,1031,12665,130,3805,11377,11926,4671],"class_list":["post-46020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-1992-constitution","tag-amnesty","tag-council-of-state","tag-exercise","tag-felix-kwakye-ofosu","tag-ghana","tag-government","tag-grants","tag-inmates","tag-john-dramani-mahama","tag-kwakye-ofosu","tag-mahama","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-prisoners","tag-prisons-service"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46022,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46020\/revisions\/46022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}