GHANA – Banana Republic: Rule of Law gives way to the Law of the Jungle, where might is right

Chiefs banish Citizens, Students go on Rampage, Soldiers replace Police while Government is fixated on next election not the collapsed economy, Junk Cedi.

As Traders declare strike due to the mismanagement of the Economy by the Economic Management Team;

The Trade Union Congress and Association of Ghana Industries join the rest of Ghana and AriseGhana in calling out the failed Akufo-Addo government and demanding the sacking of the Finance Ministers, Governor of the Bank of Ghana and Dr. Bawumia for supervising the collapse of the economy and Free fall of the Cedi.

Beyond the excruciating hardships Ghanaians are enduring there is even greater danger lurking as the laws of Ghana are jettisoned by the State, Traditional authority and their agents…

Police are trained to keep peace and mandated to deal with civil matters, while the Military are trained to kill and mandated to defend the territorial integrity of Ghana.

Many Ministers and now appointees such as the ECG commandeered and deploying Military to perform the role of the Police and are unperturbed even after the Military personnel assaulted citizens amid firing live bullets.

Those who ordered or deployed the Military to KPLETSO to SHOOT and ASSAULT unarmed civilians on 15th April, 2020 paved the way for the Military to go to EJURA on yet another SHOOTING and ASSAULT mission and then mutineering soldiers in WA to embark on ASSAULT Spree and now Ada over the Songhor Salt and now Krobo…

Instead of punishing the culprits and their commanders, the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, President Akufo-Addo led a high powered delegation to Wa to beg for the soldiers to be forgiven not punished in accordance with the laws of Ghana to serve as deterrent to others.

President Akufo-Addo till date has ignored the earlier Military brutality at Kpletso in La which has so far claimed three (3) lives.

The Military High Command promised Ghanaians it was conducting an investigation into the Kpletso Shooting and Assault by armed men in Ghana Army Uniform but is yet to make public the Report on the investigation more than a year on.

The Ghana Police Service refused to investigate the Kpletso Shooting and Assault despite the event happening in the presence of DCOP Kwesi Ofori and other senior Police officers,the IGP was Petitioned to no avail.

The National Media Commission despite its pledge and opening an office to guarantee safety of journalists, refused to act on Petitions brought before them after several journalists who went to cover the Kpletso event were themselves assaulted with their injuries including the head injuries of Citi TV/Radio journalist Nii Ayikwei Okine shown on television…

The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), however, acknowledged receipt of a petition on the Kpletso Shooting and Assault by armed men in Ghana Army Uniform with a promise to investigate…

Then came the Suame standoff where the Military and Police nearly engaged in an all out shootout but for the timely intervention of their respective commanders.

Nobody has been publicly punished for the Kpletso, Ejura, Wa and Suame acts of impunity by the Military.

Many Ministers and now appointees such as the ECG commandeered and deploying Military to perform the role of the Police and are unperturbed even after the Military personnel assaulted citizens amid firing live bullets.

The Military have been deployed to guard Chinese Galamseyers to mine in the forests and on our water bodies as shown on Joy News TV, yet nobody has been punished except Ghanaian water consumers who are being surcharged with the cost of pollution of the rivers and water bodies that the Ghana Water Company relies on.

Shortly after the back to back Rampage on Ghana’s University campuses vandalising property, Chiefs have deployed vigilante groups to vandalise

Akwesi Adai Odike’s office in an attempt to enforce a banishing order for claiming that Chiefs are complicit in the Galamsey activities in their communities…

As Ghana inches closer to a major Civil Strike or Uprising, the current trend in Vigilantism and Vandalism cannot be ignored no matter who is involved – whether it is being spearheaded by Students or Chiefs.

The dragging of the Military into internal security matters which must be handled by the police is most dangerous as their familiarity with the civilian population may result in a number of adverse outcomes including Contempt or Coup;

1. Contempt brought on by familiarity is avoided by keeping the Military in barracks insulated from the civilian population and brought in as a last resort during a State of Emergency.

2. Coups have dogged Ghana in the past, when Military adventurists have taken advantage of the economic situation to takeover power, a situation that must be avoided at all cost in this Fourth Republic.

AriseGhana Youth for your country.

For the above reasons and especially because Ghana is in the worst economic situation, Ghanaians undergoing the worst hardship and the general discontent in every sector from Education to Health spilling over into the markets;

GOVERNMENT NUST IMMEDIATELY WITHDRAW THE MILITARY FROM ALL CIVIL POLICE DUTIES.

Publicly punish perpetrators and commanders who deployed those who participated in the various illegal military activities including Landguard duties at Kpletso among others.

Government must publicly punish any Students or Chiefs found to be involved in the Vigilantism and Vandalism phenomenon which is fast becoming the New Normal.

The President must act to save Ghana from the brink.

God Save Our Homeland Ghana from becoming a BANANA REPUBLIC or a FAILED STATE.

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By Prince-Derek Adjei