Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, a former Deputy Attorney General, commended parliament for passing the Community Service Bill 2026 into law.

Parliament passed the Bill on Thursday, July 8, 2026, which introduces community service as an alternative to custodial sentences for persons convicted for minor offences.

In an interview with the media in Sunyani, Mr Tuah-Yeboah credited the former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration, saying that the previous government did extensive work on the Bill.

He explained that the passage of the Bill was in the right direction, saying that it would help decongest the nation’s prison population.

Mr Tuah-Yeboah justified that the previous NPP government carried out extensive public education on the Bill; however, the NPP could not pass the Bill due to some parliamentary delays.

The Bill was presented to Parliament by the Minister for the Interior, Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, on March 4, 2026, in accordance with Article 106(1) of the 1992 Constitution and subsequently referred to the Committee on Defence and Interior for consideration.

The passage of the Bill into law now provides a legal and institutional framework for the implementation of community service, with the aim of expanding sentencing options available to the courts.

With the passage, the law will now reduce the nation’s reliance on imprisonment for minor and specified offences.