The police administration is wasting no time to establish the full facts surrounding the reported savagery – brute force employed by police officers deployed to put down a protest by students of the Islamic Senior High School (SHS) at Abrepo in the Kumasi metropolis.
Not only that, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare is heading to Kumasi, Ghana’s second-largest city, to get first-hand information on the incident.
Armed police officers sent to quell the protest by the senior high school students are said to have teargassed and chased the students to their dormitory to rough them up leading to some of the students getting hurt.
The students of the Islamic senior high school had blocked the Abrepo-Junction – Barekese road, clogging this road with corridor bumper-to-bumper traffic.
The students’ action was in protest, against the recklessness and inconsiderate driving by motorists, who have been using this road that runs right in front of the school, that has been causing frequent pedestrian knockdowns.
A teacher of the senior high school is said to have been knocked down by a vehicle, just last Saturday, June 11, 2022. The disproportionate use of force on the students, sent nervous parents scurrying to the school to check on their children.
The police in recent times have received public bashing for bullying unarmed civilians.
Professor Kwesi Aning, Director of the Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, has said that the rate at which police officers have been bullying, visiting violence and using unreasonable force against the unarmed civilian population, culminating in deaths and injuries, was sickening and should be a worry to everybody.
Prof Aning lashed out at the conduct of the few bad elements in the service – when traveling on the roads, the intimidation, extortion of money from travelers, the lies around the use of the speed guns, bullying of drivers in instances where the vehicle is not doing that speed, point to a credibility gap in the police service.
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