Civilian and Police Brutality in Ghana

The President, IGP, National Peace Council, and all stakeholders of security concerns, must do something immediately to save the Police Service to achieve general national security goals. This has become necessary because of how police personnel are being beaten these days by civilians. The situation has become rampant these days, and if care is not taken immediately, the next level will be a national security crisis. How? The reason is, if the current trend of beatings are left unabated, the time is coming when civilians will have no respect for police officers. No fear of the police?-Well! They are not to be feared, though. They only deserve our respect. It means that if no one fears or respects their presence-thus, people will take the laws into their own hands. A few weeks ago, a driver and his mate (bus conductor) descended on a police officer from trying to stop them after jumping the red light at Wieja (Gbawe Municipal Assembly) in Accra. Another was told of an attack on the Central Regional Police Commander, DCOP Mr. Paul Manly Awini, by a Ghanaian legislature on the premise of the University of Education, Winneba, Cape Coast in the Central Region. On the other hand, a group of 10 police officers, per reports, descended on 3 Ghanaian Times newspaper reporters, including a nursing mother, when they attempted to film him over a traffic offence. (He jumped the red light) All these happened almost at the same time. These are a few of the unreported numerous. Authorities concerned need to meet to streamline policies to maintain law and order, else, justice will grind into a halt but injustice to take over. Source: The Future Projects By: Nyarko Abronomaa Walker Follow at myfutureprojects.blogspot.com Facebook The Future Projects +233 243015920/266257300

WHY THE COMPLAINT "EVERYTHING GOVERNMENT"?

Why do we usually hear the phrase "everything government. Don't expect government to do everything for you". Of course, we should expect everything from the government because everything, including all the natural resources and taxes, have been entrusted into the hands of the President and his team to distribute it for our benefits, as and when we desire. So why the complaint over our legitimate demands? Aright! A simple scenario. If you have given your money to someone you trusted, why should it be difficult to get your own money back, then? The fact is, government is obliged to do everything for us, based on the kind of system we run our governance. It is obliged to respond to every need of ours and answer our questions. In fact, the President and his team are our servants, but not the other way round. They are supposed to serve us instead of we serving them, as we experience currently. What we should hear, rather than the rhetoric "everything government", is that government is, maybe, financially handicapped and so individuals and groups can do something to augment the government's efforts. That's fair. Who else should we ask for our legitimate and natural or civil rights from? Government owe us an obligation. We demand our rights. Source: The Future Projects By: Nyarko Abronomaa Walker Follow at myfutureprojects.blogspot.com +233 243015920/266257300