A village gang has
subjected a police officer to unspeakable ordeal at Behenase in the Bekwai
Municipality of the Ashanti Region.
Tethering an adult to a
tree as though he is a goat in a modern setting is not a thing to be countenanced.
It does not matter that it took place in a village. That they even sought to
sacrifice the blood of D/Sgt David Olanuyi to a local deity in a 2019 Ghana makes
us wonder whether those young men are completely out of touch with modern Ghana
and perhaps live in a cave.
Fortunately for the cop,
the deity declined the blood of the police officer, according to the weird
report about the occurrence. We are appalled by the circumstances under which
the cop was taken as though he was a prisoner and beaten up. It would be
important to know why he went for an arrest without support from other cops in
a rustic environment.
In such settings, it is
ill-advised to undertake such actions the way the Sergeant did. It is our
expectation that an important lesson would have been learnt by this occurrence.
As for the young men, they
must be smoked out and given the appropriate charges so they can be arraigned
and the relevant punishment prescribed.
Respect for authority has
in recent times suffered a disturbing decline and we shudder to think that the
trend is continuing.
If such unbecoming
attitude occurs in rural settings, it should not be so in urban centres like
Accra. Recently, a police officer was assaulted around the Abossey Okai
Roundabout by irate persons who were conveying the remains of their beloved one
for burial. The cop’s only offence was that in the course of managing a traffic
holdup, he had ordered the burial party to wait for a while. He was pounced
upon and beaten to pulps.
Sometimes irresponsible
persons destroy police stations and property thereof being state assets demands
even harsher sanctions from the courts.
For those who do not know
and tend to become crude in their reactions attacking police officers is
tantamount to attacking the state. Assault in whatever form regardless of the
victim’s status is criminal, let alone exacting such criminality on a
representative of the state in uniform.
If existing laws are not
enough, we ask for a review so something more painful can be adopted so that
the phenomenon can be brought to a close or even reduced to the barest minimum.
We expect to be briefed by
the Police Administration about developments regarding the arrest of the young
men and others implicated in similar assault of police officers in other parts
of the country.
When law enforcement
agents are unable to undertake their statutory functions because they are
overwhelmed by physical attacks then the state itself is under threat.
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