Issa Hassan Sessay is serving a 52 year prison sentence for war crimes and crimes against humanity he committed in Sierra Leone.
Sessay was transferred to complete his sentence in Rwanda’s Mpanga International Prison Facility.
However, Sessay complains that he is not satisfied with the quality of service offered to him at the prison especially saying he is served poor meals.
Recently he interucted with Ugandan students from Makerere University who visited Mpanga International prison after visiting Butare Prison in the southern province of Rwanda.
The students were conducting research on among other things, the lives of prisoners in Rwanda.
Sessay told the Ugandan students, “ iam imprisoned on many counts of crimes against humanity and war crimes. I will spend 52years in this prison. However, I don’t know whether UN knows the kind of life am living here”.
He added, “Iam living a better life than those who committed crimes in the first world war. The Rwandan prison wardens are respectiful all the time.”
However, Sessay complains that he is served incomplete meals. For example on 9th April, I was served milk, fried beans,bread. I was not given an egg yet iam supposed to have one everyday.
On 12 April they told me that I would find a good meal accompanied by good water but instead I was served Coca-Cola. The prison exxergerates a lot, the promise me salad but later serve me just a small portion.
Everyday they give me a book to sign indicating whether I have been served the desired meal.
Sessay told the students that he is now tired of daily eggs served to him, daily beef and roasted G-nuts.
He also complained about being denied to make telephone calls to his wife on Sunday saying he is only allowed access to such calls for six days of the week.
Why do the prison authorities give me Newspapers from East Africa and not West Africa? They give me; East African, Daily Nation, Daily Monitor, New Vision and Nouvelle Époque.
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