Former remand prisoner seeks compensation over alleged torture, rights abuse

Stephen Frempong is seeking compensation from the state A 45-year-old trained teacher, Stephen Frempong, a native of Sokode-Etoe in the Ho Municipality, is seeking compensation from the State over what he describes as years of human rights abuses, torture and inhumane treatment, while in wrongful police and prison custody.” Frempong said after the alleged abuse, he was remanded into custody at the Ho Central Prison, where he became prison inmate for four years before being granted bail in 2009.

Frempong said a breakthrough in his case occurred shortly before he was granted bail in 2009, when Hanson the alleged culprit, who stabbed the driver and fled the scene was later remanded at the Ho Central Prison on a different offence.