The mugging of Daniel Osei, the
Level 400 University of Ghana, Legon student and his close shave is an
indication of how poor the security architecture of the premier tertiary
institution is.
It is unacceptable that parents
would worry about the safety of their wards on campus of the university.
Walking through the campus of the university gives one a sense of utmost
security and that is how campuses are supposed to be. It is only when such
occurrences are reported that it begins to dawn upon us that something is not
right in the management of security in the university.
We would not be wrong to think
that security has been taken for granted for far too long on the campus of the
school.
This is not the first reported
instance of a security breach; the others before this were equally unnerving.
We would have expected the security department of the university to raise its
watch level to the highest point to obviate such unpleasant occurrences after
the previous breaches.
That students would no longer
feel safe to go for the usual night studies they love to do suggests how
dangerous life on campus has become. We have taken notice of the authorities’
call on students to be calm and wish to state that while we agree with the call,
we cannot ignore the apprehension the nasty development has wreaked upon
residents on campus and their parents at home.
Daniel could have lost his life
under the circumstances, the repercussions of which could have only been
imagined.
If this is not a wakeup call
for the university authorities to rethink their security arrangements, then we
do not know what else is.
The security of the premier
university can be tight if this department is resourced sufficiently with an
appropriate manpower to render this crucial service.
That outsiders can breach the
security of this institution to the extent of rendering some portions of the
campus dangerous at certain periods is an indictment on the authorities
especially the security department.
Yesterday the Greater Accra
Regional Operations Director ACP/Mr. Kwesi Ofori and a team visited the crime
in the company of the university’s managers. We are excited and assured that
the police have announced some measures such as motorcycle patrols of the
streets on campus. We are hard-pressed not to describe the measures as
short-lived because we do not think the police would provide a year-long patrol
of the campus.
Given the vulnerability of the
campus, a robust internal security system beyond the current arrangement is
needed to ward off such occurrences.
We have learnt that non-functioning
streetlights are being worked upon, and one wonders why this picture could have
been allowed to persist until now. Somebody certainly was sleeping on their
jobs.
Something radical must be
rolled out to stem the occasional yet dangerous security breaches on the campus
of the University of Ghana.
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