By Kofi Owusu

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) Parliamentary Candidate for Pru East in the Bono East Region, Hon. Yusif Appeh Apetorgbor, has extended a helping hand by organising a free health screening exercise to the inmates of Yeji Central Prisons to mark his 58th birthday.

He also presented items, such as drinks, bottled water, food, toiletries, etc., at a cost of GH¢13,000.

He told this paper that, after the screening, he had already bought the drugs prescribed by the health experts for GH¢1,700.

Hon. Yusif Appeh Apetorgbor making presentation to the inmates

The NPP parliamentary candidate, who is tipped to snatch the seat from the NDC, decided to visit the Yeji Central Prison inmates to show an appreciation to God for saving him from a series of accidents that happened to him some years ago.

Hon. Yusif Appeh Apetorgbor

“I have been involved in a series of serious accidents both on road and on river. I neither got hurt nor died and for these reasons, I have to be grateful to God with this gesture,” he added.

He said what baffled him was when he was trapped in a river for almost nine hours after the boat with which he was travelling capsized during one of his campaign tours. He used the occasion to appeal to affluent individuals to extend their hands to the needy at all times in order to receive God’s blessings.

The Yeji Central Prison officials were grateful to him for the gesture and urged others to emulate his shinning examples.

They said for the past nine years, they had not seen that benevolence and were totally convinced that the health screening exercise would go a long way to improve the health status of the inmates.