{"id":595318,"date":"2019-02-28T20:41:54","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 -->\n\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The Director of Operation,\u00a0Accra Police Comm"},"modified":"2019-02-28T20:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T20:41:54","slug":"political-tagging-hampers-fight-against-party-militia-police-tells-short-cssion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/28\/political-tagging-hampers-fight-against-party-militia-police-tells-short-cssion\/","title":{"rendered":"Political tagging hampers fight against party militia- Police tells Short C&#8217;ssion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<!-- \/1002554\/MJO_Announcement_250X340 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The Director of Operation,\u00a0Accra Police Command, has said police officers who prosecute party militia for crime are tagged politically.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">This undermines efforts to disband the political party militia groups, Chief Superintendent Kwesi Ofori told the Emile Short Commission Thursday.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-1 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Citing a personal experience in Kumasi, he said, \u201cI have been a victim of some kind of vigilantism. In Kumasi when they were doing this registration of voters, people just arrogated unto themselves the powers to go to any registration Centre and destroy the facilities.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"260px\" src=\"https:\/\/clip.afrad.io\/?clipId=KRJqjpz4CCapi4CNY\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid-2 --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">According to him,\u00a0efforts to bring these individuals to justice got him transferred to Accra because\u00a0he was accused of political bias.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">The crusade to disband\u00a0party militia has gathered moment since the Ayawaso by-election turned violent following clashes between supporters of the NDC and men dressed in shirts with inscriptions NSC (National Security Council). <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Following this development, government by executive instrument constituted a Commission of Inquiry chaired by a former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice, Justice Emile Short. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Among other things, the Commission has been tasked to make a full, faithful and impartial inquiry into the circumstances of, and establish the facts leading to, the events and associated violence during the Ayawaso West Wuogon By-Election on the 31st day of January 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Emile Short Commisison Ayawaso\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/1551386513_252_6434232264653_2045441147509.jpg\" style=\"border-style:solid; border-width:3px; height:96%; width:600px\" data-pagespeed-url-hash=\"2542967229\" onload=\"pagespeed.CriticalImages.checkImageForCriticality(this);\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-family:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;\">Kwesi Ofori added his voice to the increasing calls for the disbandment of party vigilantism. 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This undermines efforts to disband the political party militia groups, Chief Superintendent Kwesi Ofori told the Emile Short Commission Thursday. Citing a personal experience in Kumasi, he said, \u201cI have been a victim of some kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":595240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Political tagging hampers fight against party militia- Police tells Short C&#039;ssion - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/28\/political-tagging-hampers-fight-against-party-militia-police-tells-short-cssion\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Political tagging hampers fight against party militia- Police tells Short C&#039;ssion - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Director of Operation,\u00a0Accra Police Command, has said police officers who prosecute party militia for crime are tagged politically. 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