William Nyarko, ACILA Executive Director |
President Akufo-Addo
after being briefed of an assault case of a policeman brutalizing a customer at
a branch of Midland Savings and Loans in Accra coupled with the recent police
shooting incident in Asawase in the Ashanti Region mentioned that government
will establish a committee of inquiry to look into the events and make
recommendations going forward.
It is as a result of
this response the Executive Director stepped-in to advice the president that
such a committee is needless and urged him to rather concentrate on the
implementation of IPCC.
“Ghana agreed to a
recommendation to establish the Independent Police Complaint Commission when
its human rights record was reviewed by the UN Human Rights Council in November
2017 and we should follow through and establish the Independent Police
Complaint Commission (IPCC)”, Mr. Nyarko stressed.
“Mr. President
respectfully we don’t need a ‘conumtea’[committee] to investigate the conduct of police officers, he jovially added.
The Executive Director
further noted that instead of establishing a committee on matters like this
where final reports of committees have always been left to rot on the shelves,
it was important the state allows the criminal justice system to work in
bringing unprofessional security personnel to the full rigorous of the law.
“We have to allow the
criminal justice system to work by prosecuting these officers and if they are
found guilty, they should do time in prison in accordance with due process’,
Mr. Nyarko noted.
Following the Midland
Savings and Loans police brutality, the police hierarchy has interdicted the
officer involved in the alleged assault case and commenced investigations into
the conduct of the police officer.
The assault has
resulted in many social media condemnation. Some civil society groups and
individuals have come out to condemn the action and have urged stricter
punishment to be taken against the policeman Federick Ammanor.
However, the family of the policemen in an interesting twist apologized to the public and the family of the victim and stated that their relative “usually” beats up women.
However, the family of the policemen in an interesting twist apologized to the public and the family of the victim and stated that their relative “usually” beats up women.
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