"It was long overdue" – Martin Kpebu talks about depoliticization of the police council

General News of Sunday, February 10, 2019

Source: Myjoyonline.com

2019-02-10

Martin Kpebu, a private lawyer, called for the re-politicization of the depoliticization of the police council.

According to him, making the police council independent of the control of the executive would facilitate the efficiency of the maintenance of the order.

"It is time for us to return to the question of the independence of the police council," he said.

He added that Ghana needed constitutional reforms to achieve this, adding that the Attorney General's office should also be separated from the Ministry of Justice.

"… it's because, when the attorney general is loyal to the president, it's not easy to say that he / she should pursue the partygoers," Kpebu said.

Kpebu's remarks come after the government bowed to public pressure for it to establish an independent commission to investigate the violence in the Ayawaso West by-election. Wuogon.

Sam George, victims including Ningo Prampram MP, said police officers were monitoring events as gunmen were suspected of belonging to the aligned New Patriotic Government's self-defense group (NPP). ), Invincible Forces, terrorizing them.

As a result of the unrest, some groups questioned the independence of the police and expressed doubts about its ability to conduct a credible investigation into these disorders.

The police always complained

The police is always complaining of the influence of political figures on his work.

The recent recent is CPA Benjamin Agordzor's mbad-circulation conference.

The police officer complained bitterly about the composition of the police council, which is practically composed only of the person appointed by the president.

ACP Agordzor said that this makes the police accountable to the president and not to the Ghanaian constitution, as members appointed by the president sit at their discretion and can be dismissed at any time.

He pleaded for the creation of an independent council consisting of an Inspector General of Police (IGP) with a fixed mandate and not an extension of the seat of government.