An officer of the Ghana Armed Forces has been locked up in their guardroom in Michel Camp, Tema, since November 2022. That’s is 6 months without a charge and without trial. Yet Ghana is a democracy of rule of law. This is in violation of their own rules requiring that an officer facing discipline and in custody must be released if not tried after 90 days.
Reports and viral video evidence of people assaulting security officers are dangerous and as disturbing as police and military officers abusing each other in public. It is most unhelpful if the public is not given information about and resolution of situations such as the recent brawl between soldiers and the police in front of the police headquarters. It must be swift, through and truthful.
There have been praises by some for what we did in Ashaiman. Please do not expect us to follow the Constitution when we undertake these exercises. Who is talking and about what exercise?
Fellow Ghanaians, that is none other but a Director-General in the Ghana Armed Forces. That is Brigadier General Eric Aggrey Quarshie reporting how proud they feel to have besieged Ashaiman recently fully armed using helicopters and armored cars, and terrorizing innocent people in the name of searching for suspects of the gruesome killing of young trooper Imoro Sherrif on March 4, 2023.
OccupyGhana (OG) has been telling the story of how the Lands Commission is failing, neglecting or refusing to act like a public service provider with professionals, despite being fined GHS100,000 by the RTI Commission for such conduct.
The RTI Commission is back in the news for all the right reasons. Like me, many were disappointed at its verdict affirming the presidency’s decision to refuse to disclose cost of the president’s profligate charter-plane travels. Well, now he has stopped, but after those expensive travels, some unnecessary have cost the country dearly. Just how is the nation or the president’s security in danger by mere disclosure of the cost of those private jet flights? Flights which are now a matter of public knowledge, thanks to the investigative MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.
She has won a million hearts. Yes, even many on the lunatic fringe for the senseless duopoly partisan politics cannot help but love her.
Yes, even those who called her names over the errant conduct of the infamous Montie-3 are celebrating her. She spent over thirty years writing judgments, and over twenty of those years in the Supreme Court resolving disputes, shaping national policy and developing Ghana law.