Nima unfortunately evokes the thought of the unfortunate hooliganism that unfolded last Sunday at the residence of one of Ghana’s political leaders.
Given the nastiness of the high-profile criminality steeped in politics, we would have expected that government would order a commission of enquiry into it.
We may not get one and even if we do many would be skeptical about the outcome.
With the membership of such a committee to be determined by persons who would rather the truth is concealed, nothing worthwhile would emanate from it.
Perhaps the President’s hurried gun-jumping apportioning of blame to the Police has prejudiced the matter and some may even find an enquiry of this sort useless and unnecessary.
We think otherwise. Such enquiries are required for varied reasons; one being unearthing what went wrong with a view to, especially, determining who slept on their jobs.
It is also necessary to find out whether under our peculiar circumstances there was official complicity from the political establishment.
Above all, we need to exact punitive actions where some public officials, the relevant police commanders for that matter slept on their jobs. Why did police intervention, especially, reinforcement from the police headquarters tarry for close to an hour before coming?
The account of the Public Relations Director of the Ghana Police Service, who did not witness the occurrence sought to rubbish the narrations of the victims of the attack.
Only a report from such enquiry can establish the truth and determine who the liar is.
The absence of any form of enquiry would only endorse the oft-stated query that in our part of the world very serious breaches involving law enforcement failures do not trigger official investigations.
Ordering a probe into the security aberration even if defaulters would not be penalized, is worth capturing in our annals. Such a report would nonetheless provide the basis for a welcome critique.
We have, for instance, heard reliably that one of the Police Commanders, District or Divisional was approached by one of the distressed private security men in the flag bearer’s residence to intervene.
He reportedly snubbed him and looked on as stones were being thrown into the house.
It is imperative that the authenticity of this segment of the narration is probed to establish the truth, especially since the said commander was said to be an NDC sympathizer.
Let us be real: our country has listed so badly that it is not difficult to politically profile most police officers.
Indeed within the ranks of the law enforcement agency, officers know the affiliations of their colleagues.
That was how one of the commanders, folded his arms as the disorder lasted for that long before somebody put on his thinking cap and ordered an intervention.
This is the reason we need a proper commission of enquiry to attempt to establish the truth, the only truth and nothing but the truth.
A situation where NDC serial callers would seek to establish mendaciously that the attack was a clash and that it took place at about 10am are palpable lies which need addressing through a probe.
And what did the NDC Chairman say about the concern showed by the British and American good counsel?
An unsurprising swipe at them for, as he put it, falling for NPP propaganda.
We can only ask him to replace his propaganda cap with the rational thinking one to help him talk decently.
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