Chairman of the Defense and Interior Committee of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong has referred to that even though college students of the Islamic Senior High School (SHS) passed their barriers at some point of their protest, they did now no longer should be handled as armed robbers through the Police.
Some college students took to the streets closing Monday to protest incessant knockdowns at the school’s street as a few reportedly peddled stones at Police employees deployed to repair calm.
The Police in response fired weapons and used tear fuel lines to address the group, main to over 20 college students being hospitalised after a few fainted.
Speaking to the media after main the Defense and Interior Committee of Parliament went to a number of the sufferers on Friday, Kennedy Agyapong condemned the Police over the techniques utilized in coping with the scholars.
According to him, even though college students passed their barriers, they shouldn’t have been handled as armed robbers.
“The college students whether or not they're proper or now no longer exceed their barriers and overreacted. The identical applies to the Police officials too, I suppose in addition they handled them like armed robbers, it turned into an excessive amount of, and in addition, they passed their barriers.
“We take a cue from what has taken place to those college students so that subsequent time while Police are going out there, their crew is known as crowd manage, they must understand the whole of the human beings that they're going to address.” the Parliamentarian shared.
Kennedy Agyapong added, “If you notice the scholars that have been injured, the Police officials, irrespective of the motives went too far. A woman that I sympathize with is a woman who can’t breathe well due to the fact they hit her head with a gun, which turned into an excessive amount of for a woman, now no longer even a boy, and for that matter, now no longer a person or woman.”
Meanwhile, Kennedy Agyapong has charged the Ghana Police Service to take a relook at its crowd management unit and make sure matters alternate going forward.
“So I will now no longer be right here to sentence each person however I will plead with the Police High Command that subsequent time they must take the group manage unit to teach and allow them to work out patience,” he added.
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