Police ready to suppress political vigilance – COP Kofi Boakye | General news

Ghana's police services have indicated that an imminent crackdown would be waged against self-defense groups and their political sponsors.

Nathan Kofi Boakye, director general of the Police Professional Standards Bureau, said the police were fed up with the evil activities of these groups and were ready to stop them.

The police chief spoke Wednesday, Jan. 16, of political activism and Ghanaian democracy at the conference and New Year's Eve at the University of Ghana in Accra. away from this act, reports Timothy Nengme of Graphic Online.

"The police service is ready to confront vigilante groups despite the political beacons and threats of the politicians who serve as entrepreneurs for these groups.

"The time has come to say that it is enough, because, after what we see and collect, if we do not act now, something explosive will happen in 2020 ", did he declare.

But he added that other institutions with roles to eradicate the threat must also play their part or the desired results may not happen.

"The police are in a difficult situation, even if we are daring and ready to arrest the militiamen.The very people who finance these groups have the courage to sit on the radio and condemn the police, but I Encourages the police to be bold as we repress the bad guys.

"If we stop these guys and the courts give them light slaps from the bottom, they will continue to be encouraged to do what they do, so let's all fight together," he said.