Seychelles and Tanzanian prison heads to meet |16 December 2022
Inspection by CGP Kasike in March 2019 at SPS Montagne Posée
• Areas of mutual interest to be discussed
The Seychelles Prison Service will welcome the working visit of the head of the Tanzanian Prison Service, Commissioner General Mzee Ramadhan Nyamka and delegation as from December 19, 2022 to the Seychelles where he will meet with Commissioner of the Seychelles Prison Service, Raymond St. Ange, and his senior management team.
The agenda of the visit will include a primary courtesy call on the Minister for Internal Affairs, Errol Fonseka, as well as other senior Seychellois authorities, before proceeding to a meeting with the Seychelles Prison Service to discuss existing memorandum of understanding and possible areas of cooperation.
CGP Nyamka will as well tour the main prison at SPS Montagne Posée where he will have the opportunity to meet with Tanzanian prison service personnel 2nd cohort, who have been in service for the past year following their assignment to the Seychelles.
It should be recalled that the Seychelles Prison Service last welcomed a visit of the head of the Tanzanian Prison Service in March 2019, which was at that time under the command of Commissioner General Kasike. The MoU between Seychelles and Tanzania has been active since its signing on May 1, 2018, which was followed by a deployment of the first cohort of TPS personnel later that year.
As of June 2021, the Tanzanian Prison Service managed over a hundred prisons with approximately thirty three thousand inmates, those convicted or on pre-trial detention.
The Seychelles Prison Service in 2023 will be commissioning a youth offenders facility to manage youth who have been convicted by a court and as well, the first phase of a new detention remand facility to manage those in pre-trial detention and which will replace the remand centre now located at Bois de Rose.
The new remand facility has been designed to be in conformity with international standards and conventions while the youth facility will be managed in line with the ‘Beijing Rules’, a United Nations standard for the administration of juvenile justice.
Press release from the Seychelles Prison Service
