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I do now no longer recognise that Security Analyst Dr Adam Bonaa is likewise skilled as a crowd-manipulate professional of the Ghana Police Service (GPS), due to the fact his evaluation of the way wherein police employees in Kumasi, the Asante local Accra, dealt with the latest protest demonstration through college students on the Abrepo Junction Islamic Senior High School left plenty to be desired (See “Islamic SHS Protest: Police Action Despicable: Victims Are Just Children – Adam Bonaa” Modernghana.com 6/13/22). The most effective factor on which I might unreservedly accept as true with Dr Bonaa regards the alleged use of stay mag or bullets through the police to disperse the group of pupil protest demonstrators who, through the way, we learn, had been pelting the police with stones and different rough-hewn missiles and cudgels.
If indeed, the cops worried about breaking apart the pupil demonstrators used stay bullets or munitions, then such a reaction should be roundly condemned in no unsure terms. As for the alleged use of tear fuel line, which Dr Bonaa additionally virulently disapproves of, I additionally beg to vary in no unsure terms. The truth of the problem is that scholars who're actively and concertedly or collaboratively and coordinatively engaged in pelting riot-manipulate cops with stones and different types of lethal rough-and-geared up collection of missiles, irrespective of their non-high-tech make or manufacture, are sincerely engaged in violent and socially disruptive sports that should now no longer be condoned beneath neath any circumstances. By his vehement condemnation of the strategic and reputedly measured use of tear fuel lines in controlling the riotously rampaging college students, the police had been flawlessly performing in the valid bounds and policies of engagement and should be applauded in preference to roundly condemned or maligned.
As properly, the set-off reaction through the police to the scene of mayhem and social disturbance of the general public peace should be unreservedly applauded, as additionally the set-off arrival at the scene through the Inspector-General of the Ghana Police Service, Dr George Akuffo Damper. Of course, even extra approbation is the cap potential of the IGP to get the trouble or criticism over which the scholars had been protesting nearly right away resolved through the Head of the Asante Region’s Department of Urban Roads. We also are reliably knowledgeable that the trouble that the scholars had been reportedly grieving needed to do with reckless use through motorists gambling the Abrepo Junction-Barekese Road, the beginnings of which the Islamic Senior High School is positioned. The college students were complaining approximately the want for velocity bumps – or velocity ramps, in neighbourhood Ghanaian parlance – to be installed throughout the closely pedestrian-trafficked phase of the street in which the aforementioned faculty is positioned for pretty someday now however all, characteristically, to no avail.
Now, that is one place of our country-wide safety in which safety professionals like Dr Bonaa should have been focusing their interest for pretty someday now, and now no longer simply wait to explicit their displeasure or disgust properly after the truth. Plus, he becomes now no longer gift on the scene of the violent demonstration through the scholars of the Abrepo Junction Islamic Senior High School and consequently it's far unduly presumptuous on the part of the critic to assert that the selection through the police to apply tear fuel line and stay ammo become completely out of order or professionally irresponsible. Now, it commonly relies upon the truth of whether or not the cops at the scene had been prepared with the latest crowd-controlling gear. If now no longer, then that is what Dr Bonaa should be advocating for, and now no longer cavalierly or lamely assuming that the violent motion of the in large part teenage college students, concerning pelting the police with sharp-edged missiles and cudgels simply amounted to the navy equal of a slap at the wrist.
No such armchair kibbitzing of the sort of sincerely risky state of affairs will be over again absurd and morally irresponsible. I don’t recognise whether or not Dr Bonaa has ever raised any teenage youngsters or has any teenage youngsters himself; else he might now no longer be making the kind of amateurish feedback which have been attributed to him through the media, such because it is rather not likely that those stone-throwing college students posed any deadly hazard to the group-controlling cops due to the fact those youngsters won't have been well fed withinside the morning of the day that they determined to violently show in protest of reckless motorists who've been endangering their lives through often pulling down pedestrians crossing the Abrepo Junction-Barekese Road or Highway.
You see, college students throwing stones and missiles at crowd-controlling or crowd-dispersing cops can't be legitimately defined as “defenceless kids.” Some of those “kids” are larger and lots more potent than a notable variety of the ladies and men in uniform who had been seeking to repair peace and order in the vicinity. Also, simply exactly how did Dr Bonaa arrive at his alternatively doubtful end that any police officer had commanded any of his subordinate colleagues to assault those missile-throwing demonstrators without provocation? “Security professionals” like Dr Bonaa want to exercise severe warning earlier than commenting on such socio-politically important subjects because the latest Abrepo Junction Islamic Senior High School protest demonstration, or those so-referred to as country-wide safety professionals can also additionally sincerely grow to be turning into a main a part of the very trouble or issues that they declare to be assisting the applicable government to resolve.
In the past, Dr Bonaa had commanded the admiration and the honour of many a country-wide-safety-aware Ghanaian citizen. Unfortunately, that is now no longer certainly considered one among such cases.
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By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
English Department, SUNY-Nassau
Garden City, New York
June 13, 2022
E-mail: okoampaahoofekwame@gmail.com
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