No, misdemeanours do attract a prison term in Ghana, even 25 years

3. The Lion in a Sheep’s Skin – Section 296(5) Act 30 and the Metamorphosis under Act 1034Even more striking is Section 296(5). Some misdemeanours have the teeth of a lion. Non nomen, sed poena.Section 296(5) lists fourteen offences with an enhanced ceiling.It provides, “A person convicted of a criminal offence under any of the following sections of the Criminal Code, 1960 (Act 29), that is to say, sections 124, 128, 131, 138, 140, 145, 151, 152, 154, 158, 165, 239, 252, 253 and 260 shall be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twenty-five years.”