Bullgod embarks on project to enhance cells and inmate experience

Artiste manager and media personality Bullgod has expressed how bad police cell experiences have pushed him to embark on an art project called "Adopt a Cell".

This project, he said, is aimed at bringing some level of comfort to detained people in various police cells.

While speaking in a recent interview on TV3, Bullgod said this initiative came to him after he was detained in a Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) cell for 72 hours.

According to him, he has had his fair share of police cell experience: bad odor, lack of water, bad hygiene, and the lack of inmates being able to go out and stretch, compared to prison cells.

He said his 72-hour experience there was the "worst ever."

"I have been in and out of police cells for a very long time, and anytime I go there, I realise the horror that we go through. And the funny thing is the people behind cells in police custody suffer more than the people in prison.

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"The prison is designed like a compound house, so there's a yard for the inmates to stretch during the day, but the police cell is different; it's just one spot, so you can't move, and people have been there for months even though the maximum time you're supposed to spend there is 48 hours," he said.

He added, "The last time I was there, I think I did three days at the BNI cell, and that was my scariest." The cell I was put in was big, but it was just me. Usually you meet people in there that you share with, but this time it was just me, so for three days I couldn't sleep. From there I was transferred to the headquarters at Accra, and I did another two days there as well.

"When I got out I could not sit on my butt for close to 2 hours," he explained

Bullgod touched more on the project: “For me what I am doing is I am taking art to the cells, murals and graffiti.

“We are doing images of hope, peace, quotes from the Q'ran and the Bible, and others. And we will do this in all cells in the country, and we have already begun with the Adabraka police station.”

Watch the video below:

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