Rather than giving him over to the police, the occupants requested that the young fellow clean a messy drain in the region, after which they served him four bundles of banku with fish, a filtered water and a beverage of his decision.
This issue grabbed my eye since first, it was brand new information to me that a commonplace 'Akoto Lantean' will decide to be this good to a hoodlum. Unfortunately, civilisation has advanced and my Akoto Lante comrades have not been abandoned. Disregard the way that the Akoto Lante-Samaritan was a solitary voice. Recall the way that he got his kin to do what for me, was the least harmful options - moment equity, indeed: illicitly exposing a suspect to discipline. They might have lynched him you know!
There is no question that what he drove the horde to do added up to going rogue, however in a creative way.
Is this estimable or condemnable? I will get back to it as of now.
The promotion to decriminalize insignificant offenses
What is fascinating however, is that the occurrence occurred on Saturday. On Sunday, May 14, The Law on JoyNews channel examined the need to decriminalize frivolous offenses in Ghana.
Frivolous offenses, as indicated by the African Commission on Human and People's Rights, are minor offenses for which the discipline is recommended by regulation to draw in an advance notice, local area administration, a low-esteem fine, or a present moment of detainment, frequently for inability to pay the fine. In any case, in Ghana, there is no regulation recommending local area administration.
The host of The Law, Samson Lardy Anyenini, has since joined a gathering of legal counselors and common liberties promoters to support the reason that would guarantee that people who commit minor offenses are made to serve the local area as opposed to being detained.
As of now, these demonstrations of oversight and commission are viewed as minor offenses; being a drifter, standing by, dallying, asking, inability to pay obligations, being a typical disturbance and defiance to guardians; causing a public irritation, peddling and distributing, peeing out in the open and washing garments in broad daylight.