I haven't the foggiest idea that Security Analyst Dr Adam Bonaa is in like manner arranged as a gathering control expert of the Ghana Police Service (GPS), since his assessment of how the police labor force in Kumasi, the Asante regional Accra, managed the new contradiction presentation by students at the Abrepo Junction Islamic Senior High School missed the mark (See "Islamic SHS Protest: Police Action Despicable: Victims Are Just Children - Adam Bonaa" Modernghana.com 6/13/22). About the only one point on which I would sincerely agree with Dr Bonaa's regard for the alleged usage of live magazines or shots by the police to dissipate the swarm of student battle demonstrators who, unintentionally, we learn, were pelting the police with stones and other disagreeable sliced rockets and cudgels.
In case, no ifs, ands or buts, the police related with isolating the student demonstrators used live shots or weapons, then, such response ought to be totally reprimanded without a doubt. Concerning the alleged usage of harmful gas, which Dr Bonaa furthermore disastrously has a problem with to, I in like manner can't resist the urge to differ unquestionably. In all actuality students who are successfully and purposely or agreeably and coordinatively took part in pelting riot-control cops with stones and various kinds of horrendous unrefined however compelling game plan of rockets, regardless of what their non-very progressed make or creation, are taken part in awful and socially hazardous activities that ought not be disregarded under any circumstance. By his enthusiastic judgment of the fundamental and assessed usage of harmful gas in controlling the fiercely rampaging students, the police were totally acting inside as far as possible and rules of responsibility and ought to be acclaimed rather than completely reprimanded or reproached.
As well, the concise response by the police to the area of commotion and the social disrupting effect on the public amicability ought to be sincerely acclaimed, as furthermore the short appearance on the scene by the Inspector-General of the Ghana Police Service, Dr George Akuffo Damper. Clearly, of fundamentally more significant suggestion is the limit of the IGP to get the issue or objection over which the students were battling immediately settled by the Head of the Asante Region's Department of Urban Roads. We are furthermore constantly informed that the issue that the students were purportedly regretting had to do with thoughtless driving by drivers playing the Abrepo Junction-Barekese Road, the beginning stage of where the Islamic Senior High School is found. The students had been protesting about the prerequisite for obstructions - or speed slants, in area Ghanaian discourse - to be mounted across the enthusiastically normal managed fragment of the road where the recently referenced school is arranged sooner or later now anyway all, unmistakably, with practically no outcome.
By and by, this is one district of our public wellbeing where security experts like Dr Bonaa ought to have been accumulating eventually now, and not just keep down to impart their failure or repulsiveness well in a little while. Furthermore, he was missing at the area of the horrendous presentation by the students of the Abrepo Junction Islamic Senior High School and as such, it is unduly self important for the intellectual to ensure that the decision by the police to use harmful gas and live ammo was completely turned inside out or masterfully deceitful. As of now, it on a very basic level depends upon the truth of whether the police on the scene were outfitted with top tier swarm-controlling stuff. In case not, then, this is the very thing that Dr It would be great for bona to advocate for, and not matter-of-factly or falteringly expecting that the disgraceful demonstration of the by and large secondary school students, incorporating pelting the police with sharp-edged rockets and cudgels essentially amounted to what might measure up to a slap on the wrist.
No such armchair kibbitzing of such a dangerous situation could be immediately more ludicrous and morally conniving. I don't know whether Dr Bonaa has anytime raised any juvenile young people or has any adolescent messes with himself; else he wouldn't offer the sort of amateurish remarks that have been credited to him by the media, for instance, it being extraordinarily unrealistic that these stone-throwing students addressed any destructive risk to the gathering controlling police in light of the fact that these young people probably won't have been true to form dealt with in the initial segment of the day that they decided to violently display in contradiction of stupid drivers who have been endangering their lives at this point and again pounding down individuals by walking crossing the Abrepo Junction-Barekese Road or Highway.
Students throwing stones and rockets at swarm controlling or swarm dissipating cops can't be really depicted as "unprotected youngsters." Some of these "kids" are more noteworthy and significantly more grounded than an extraordinary number individuals in uniform who were endeavoring to restore amicability and solicitation to the area. Furthermore, just unequivocally how did Dr Bonaa come to his to some degree problematic outcome that any cop had educated any of his subordinate partners to pursue these rocket-throwing demonstrators without affectation? "Security trained professionals" like Dr Bonaa need to rehearse extraordinary watchfulness prior to commenting on such socio-politically fundamental matters as the new Abrepo Junction Islamic Senior High School battle presentation, or these indicated public wellbeing experts might end up transforming into a critical piece of the very issue or issues that they assurance to help the significant experts with settling.
Beforehand, Dr Bonaa had educated the concession and the profound respect of various public wellbeing insightful Ghanaian inhabitants. Unfortunately, this is unquestionably not one such case.
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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
English Department, SUNY-Nassau
Garden City, New York
June 13, 2022
Email: okoampaahoofekwame@gmail.com
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