With the cutoff of the water pipe connecting Torit State Hospital and the Prison wards, prison wards is now left without water to sustain staff and inmates.
Second Lieutenant Marko Idro, Torit State Prison in charge of inmates, says the prison wards normally get their water from State Hospital, but now being forced to collect water direct from Hinatye River.
He calls on the state and non-governmental organization to quickly intervene into the matter by supporting the prison with a vehicle to transport water, Radio Emmanuel reports
‘Challenges we are facing the problem of water suppose we are getting water from the Hospital, water being pumped from Kineti River treated and clean we are getting from the Hospital, but now a day the water channels cut down the line going to the prison is cut down no water now going to the prison so we are transporting our water from the Kinaite River and we have only one vehicle the whole prison suppose two but now the other one is down we have only one and that one we are using for transporting our prison staff or any other business which we are running for our institution’, Idro complains.
Prison in charge adds that the prison service also lacks cooking utensils which according to him delay cooking process in the prison
‘We have problem of saucepans, this big saucepans for the prisoners which they use for cooking all these saucepans are finished they are licking seriously so we try our best we brought two saucepans but they are very small and this will delay in cooking process because we are locking at 5:00 PM nowadays we are locking at 6:30 PM going to 7:00 PM because there is delay in the saucepans’, he notes.
Prison authorities worry lack of support will affect people’s lives in the prison, the officer adds.
The Second Lieutenant was speaking during the monthly Rule of Law Forum at Torit Guest House on Wednesday.