Editorial Impostor Guns: Lest We Bequeath Internal Terror Cults at our own Chagrin

In a release dated June 6, 2022, referenced ARHQ/PAU/AR.10/VOL.1/09 and, signed by Superintendent Juliana Obeng, Head of Public Affairs unit/AR – of Accra Regional police headlined “Shooting at Zammrama Line Involving A Soldier: Six Persons Injured”, the Ghana police administration, thus, announced the arrest over yet another reckless, needless incident of trigger-happy tragicomedy that has been the order of the day, though with human price to pay.

The Anchor does not know how ‘happy’ the nation is receiving the numerous incidents involving the gunshots and deaths, though. The paper thinks it’s never funny, is it?

Gun must never be toyed with and truly so, a man holding a gun without conscience is dangerous, right? Indeed, in the Zammrama Line shooting, the paper learnt a near-miss of death’s injuring of some 4 persons, namely Ali Ashilley, Akim Zibo, Salam Musah and Faisal Khalid Azumah – with various degrees of gunshot wounds and sent to the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for treatment.

The above narratives are not the rotten beef the paper smells. What troubles this paper the most, was the narrative to the extent that “two of the arrested persons, suspects Godfred Amegbor and Ofei Darko also posing as soldiers sustained some injuries and were also sent to the Korle-Bu – their claims of being soldiers couldn’t be established.

The Anchor’s ponder over these issues for a while now, can encourage us to argue without hesitation that Ghana is nearing a threshold where only legacy we could be proud of, bequeathing, in the nearest future being internally-bred hardcore terrorist groupings, but at our own chagrin.

Yes, when a nation at a point of time choose, by reason unknown, to arm and uniform hoodlums and petty criminals, it may be a ‘sowing of the wind’ and truly the harvest time of the whirlwind will come.

Let us mull over these pertinent issues first; Curiously, couple of years ago, the Ghana Police administration established what it called the “Land Guard Unit” ostensibly with expectations to address the dangerous nature of the land-guardism in the country that even usurped the audacity to murder and bury two wonderful police officers: Constables Owusu Sekyere, also known as Kwaku Ninja, and Jerry Wornu, popularly known as ‘Taller’, under very bizarre circumstances. That unit in the service headquarters became a den of uniformed-land-guards who often embarked on their own treasure hunts.

As we go to press today, the police service has what we now call “Operation Calm Life”, and, they are “calming the lives” in town like no one’s business and with impunity, of a sort.

We don’t know whether there is any public safety solution in the political pipeline yet, but all this, coupled with state politics of uniforming and arming hoodlums and petty criminals in the midst of small and medium sized assault weapon proliferation plaguing the system, the paper shudder to say, there needs be true entertainment of fear, that in not-too-long; in fact, sooner than later future, the country will be courting the bigger trouble from today’s negligence to prevent it.

We are not accepting it as truth, though; the assertion of the people of the Zammrama Line that the shooting incident over a piece of land might be instigated by a greedy local politician, if true, needs to be uprooted and the “hand of the monkey removed from the soup before it becomes a human’s hand”.

We are begging the police and soldiers; in fact, the true ones, on behalf of all of us that they should live up to our expectations as duty commit the nation’s safety into their hands. Let them be watching and praying within, so to help shuffle the grains from the chaff.

The Anchor truly believes in the nation’s security agencies and calls on them to rise to their higher-selves, treat and deal with the false police and soldiers as ‘terrorists’ who can tomorrow invite bigger trouble onto us all, including even their today’s pay-masters.

source:anchorghana