Assassination of journalists: it's too easy to commit a crime in Ghana – Kofi Bentil

General News of Saturday, January 19th, 2019

Source: primenewsghana.com

2019-01-19

The Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, said that the nature of the operations of the Ghana Police Service and other security agencies in the country facilitates the commission of a crime and l '. impunity of individuals.

Ahmed Hussein-Suale, Ahmed Hussein-Suale, said the Ghana Police Service had failed to protect citizens because they were still asking for goods they did not need.

According to him, the service requested for vehicles while they lacked basic communication equipment.

"They buy the wrong things for the police. How can you buy all these cars and not have any communication equipment? "

Still on the nature of the operations of the police department, Mr. Bentil said that even with the entire system of surveillance and intervention of the service, it would not be easy to react to the crime when asked to do so.

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"I'm sure that today, if there are armed robbers in your house and you call the police, they will not come."

Many civil societies in Ghana and the international community, including US Congressman Hank Johnson, have called for the arrest and investigation of Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong for instigating the public to oppose the murdered journalist after the premiere of the documentary on corruption number 12 by the Tiger Eye PI team. to Ghanaian football.

But Kofi Bentil, a contributor to JoyFM's NewsFile news badysis program, said the MP was free to make public statements and that it was up to the law to deal with them.

He also advised the security agencies not to focus solely on him, as they might miss out on the real authors, although it is a person of interest .

In just thirty days, the country has recorded five badbadinations, among which Ahmed Hussein-Suale, senior reporter of the Tiger Eye PI investigation team, and Josephine Asante, director of marketing and business relations of Tiger Eye PI, Tema Port.