Reports Leo Odera Omolo In Homa-Bay Town.
Prison authorities have been requested to issue the ex-convicts,especially those whose characters have gone through total reformation with certificate of good conduct to enable them secure jobs and get rehabilitated fully back to the society.
The Prison authorities has also been asked to issue the ex-convicts who have trained in the prison industry and qualified as apprentices and artisans with certificate of proficiency.
This will help the ex-convicts in access to job markets once they are freed.
These appeals were made by a Homa-Bay politician Hilary Ocheng Alila when he addressed and hundreds of inmate and prison officials during the open-day prison visits at the weekend.
Alila who is the ODM youth regional coordinator in Nyanza and also an aspirant for the Hoa-Bay County Senate seat was accompanied by religious leaders pastors and civic leaders.
He said people should not view prison in the context of as place where punishment is mated out to the inmates, but an important institution where bad elements within the society can have have their characters changed and fully rehabilitated for the better.
Alila told the Wananchi in the rural areas to accept the former inmates once they are released and accord them all sorts of generosities so that they could be fully rehabilitated and actively participate in the real task of nation building.
Alila appeals to residents of Homa-Bay County and those lving in other parts of Luo-Nyanza town out in their number and register as voters when the execise is open. His way, he added, they will be able to vote for the party supremo Raila Amnolo Odinga to realize his presidential ambition during the impending general elections next year.
He reminded the residents of Nyanza to turn out in their thousands and elect new party officials during the ODM grass toot election exercise slated for May 27.
He issued a stern warning to unnamed characters said to be collaborating with the party enemies from other region who are allegedly sending agents into Luo-Nyanza with their pocket lined up for the purpose of sabotaging the party. The party would soon go public and name the political turn coats said to be in the pockets of leaders of other parties to sabotage the operation of the ODM in Nyanza.
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