Terrorising students has become a routine of the police – FixtheCountry.
The FixtheCountry campaign has condemned allegations of Ghana Police Service personnel deploying tear gas and warning shots to disperse a mob of Senior High School pupils in Abrepo, Ashanti Region.
According to the campaign, the use of excessive force by police on students has grown commonplace and must be stopped.
FixtheCountry claimed in a statement released on June 6, 2022 that the students who were fired at were only expressing their freedom to assemble, only for the police to come and attack them.
According to the movement, this will be the sixth time in the previous few years that police have used excessive force against unarmed students.
"... the students were exercising their right to assemble in order to draw attention to the frequent road accidents that occur in front of the school, following several incidents of cars knocking down students and teachers in front of the school, including a recent incident in which a female teacher was knocked down by a car... Security forces invading secondary and tertiary educational institutions with live fire and resorting to unjustified violence against kids or young people has now become a common occurrence in this country's law enforcement culture.
"Scores of highly armed soldiers were sent to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology on October 22, 2018, following a student protest, and the campus was closed indefinitely."
"Law students peacefully protesting lack of access to the Ghana Law School were attacked by the Ghana Police Service with tear gas and rubber bullets at the Sankara overpass in Accra on October 27, 2019." Two people were hurt. "There were no inquiries into the occurrence," the statement said in part.
As a result, the campaign demanded that all events in which police used excessive force on students be investigated by an impartial body with prosecution authority.
It went on to say that the police force should stop sending officers to unarmed citizen protests with live weapons and adopt public order policing operating procedures to instruct its officers.
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