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Executive of the Defense and Interior Committee of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong has noticed that even though understudies of the Islamic Senior High School (SHS) surpassed their limits during their descent, they didn't merit being treated as furnished looters by the Police.
A few understudies rampaged last Monday to fight ceaseless knockdowns on the school's street as a few purportedly hawked stones at Police faculty sent to reestablish quiet.
The Police in an answer discharged weapons and utilized poisonous gas to manage the group, prompting more than 20 understudies to be hospitalized after some blacked out.
Addressing the media in the wake of driving the Defense and Interior Committee of Parliament to visit a portion of the casualties on Friday, Kennedy Agyapong censured the Police over the strategies utilized in managing the understudies.
As indicated by him, even though understudies surpassed their limits, they shouldn't have been treated as outfitted looters.
"The understudies regardless of whether they are correct surpass their limits and overcompensated. A similar applies to the Police officials as well, I think they likewise dealt with them like outfitted looters, it was excessively, and they likewise surpassed their limits.
"We follow what has befallen these understudies so that next time when Police are going out there, their group called swarm control, they ought to know the periods of individuals that they will manage." the Parliamentarian shared.
Kennedy Agyapong added, "Assuming you see the understudies that were harmed, the Police officials, no obvious explanations went excessively far. A young lady that I feel for is a young lady who can't inhale as expected because they hit her head with a weapon, that was a lot for a young lady, not so much as a kid, and besides, not a man or lady."
In the meantime, Kennedy Agyapong has charged the Ghana Police Service to take a relook at its group control unit and guarantee things change going ahead.
"So I won't be here to censure anyone however I will beg the Police High Command that next time they ought to take the group control unit to prepare and allow them to practice persistence," he added.
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