The former Indian Consul General and Chief Executive Officer of Jeety Trading Corporation (JTC), Upjit Singh Sachdeva, alias Jeety, has escalated his humanitarian services by providing charitable items to inmates of the Monrovia Central Prison, also known as South Beach, and promised to restore their damaged water system during his next visit there.
The Monrovia Central Prison, at the seafront of Center Street’s conclusion, holds about 1,300 inmates, with pre-detainees on the rise. It faces numerous challenges and falls far below the internationally accepted prison standard, despite government’s effort in upgrading it. It violates basic human rights, with over-crowdedness, dirty cells, inadequate food, water and healthcare, according to a 2011 Amnesty International report. It was reportedly designed to hold 374 inmates, but held 839, according to BBC in the same year.
With this, more is needed to be done to improve the prisoners’ condition to standard. In this vein, Jeety has called on his counterparts to get all hands on deck to buttress government’s effort.
“I asked my fellow businessmen to support the effort of national government to take care of the Monrovia Central Prison,” Jeety said, presenting the items to the prison authorities.
Jeety donated buckets, Dettas, 100 pieces of mattresses, with nutritional food to the inmates. For transparency, he distributed the food among the prisoners and left the other items with the authorities for the convicts’ best usage.
Taking charitable items to the inmates is not Jeety’s first time; rather, it is a monthly routine, according to Varney G. Lake, Superintendent of the prison.
In a continued effort to buttress government’s effort, Jeety has promised to restore the damaged water system there.
“I will do my best to hire the proper people to restore water to all the facilities that are here,” the company CEO said. “I assure you, before I come with next month supply, it will be installed.”
Jeety said it is better to give than to receive, urging businesspersons nationwide to give to the jailbirds so that others can follow their example. As there will always be criminals in human society who will be imprisoned for their crimes, the CEO called on the public to render constant caring resources to those Liberians who are confined at the prison cells.
However, the benevolent gesture profoundly enthused the prison’s authorities, making its representative, Lake, to smile upon hearing 1,000 pieces mattresses and other items for the prisoners. Besides, he added that Jeety has become a partner of light of rehabilitation of the inmates.
“Jeety has made it a routine aspect of operation to pay a visit to the Monrovia Central Prison,” Lake said, pointing his hand at the valuable items. “Providing things for the prison is an effort of buttressing national government.”
Apart from the monthly assistance to the prisoners by the company, it avails itself to the authorities’ calls in time of need, says Lake. Restoring the water system left the superintendent in happiness.
“I am happy because the next visitation, we will be experiencing pipe borne water in our various housing units,” Lake said.