Vigilance could go from "boot for boot" to "bomb for bomb" if it was not curbed – Minister

General News on Friday, May 3, 2019

Source: www.ghanaweb.com

2019-05-03

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu, said that the insurgency vigilance system in the country could turn into uncontrollable chaos if it had not stopped in its path.

According to him, militancy that has its roots since independence is still a struggle. The need for stakeholders to face the reality and challenge the phenomenon given the recent conflicts in neighboring countries.

"This impunity must be stopped as it pbades. If we do not stop political vigilance, it could go from "boot for boot" to "bombshell". The conflict is so close to us. If we do not put our house in order because of internal conflicts, vigilance could degenerate, "he said.

The majority leader also advised young people not to join political self-defense groups, adding that it was a waste of time and a sterile cause.

"Why should young people put themselves in danger for someone else to gain political power? There is a profusion of patriotic and disinterested people in Ghana who are ready to give their lives for this country. Many of us want to sacrifice their lives to some because they have promised them paradise. We can badure them that they will not come near it.

Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonu spoke at an event on the theme "Curbing political vigilance: the taking of the media".

The media was encouraged to support the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, as was the promotion of sound and responsible governance in the priority areas and strategic objectives benefiting Ghanaians.

Media urged to name and shame political vigilantes

Affail Monney, president of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA), said the media, as the fourth body of the government, should not compromise the denunciation and shame of the perpetrators involved in vigilance activities.

"As media professionals, with an ambitious project to dissolve vigilance, we should name and shame anyone or any group that is an obstacle to the elimination of vigilance and return them to the trash cans of history. . "

On the Vigilance Bill, he added, "It is said that any law without an element of education is a hallucination. Thus, after the adoption of the law, as media professionals, we have the imperative duty, in the supreme national interest, to educate Ghanaians to the provisions of the law in order to get them to own this law, to internalize them and reflect them. in their daily lives. "