Samson’s Take: Arrogance of Power, Shameful Policing

Minister Simon Osei-Mensah’s arrogant, ignorant rants and empty threats of legal action against ECG staff in Kumasi and some media houses is shameful.

Dear Police in Kumasi, stop taking instructions that blight your competence or rather expose your incompetence and unprofessional conduct.

What is the crime of staff of the ECG switching off power to a University that owes it GHȼ600,000?

This is the height of the display of arrogance of power that people are talking about but you cannot seem to hear it.

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Stop the incoherent and lame references to the Securities and Intelligence Act to justify your lawless and disrespectful conduct to poor law-abiding workers.

The Kumasi Technical University made part payment of its debt only after this action by the ECG staff you are heard everywhere including calling a press conference to disparage and threaten.

Sir, elsewhere, you would not have kept your job to be explaining that you ordered the arrest of the Ashanti East ECG General Manager, Ing.

You cannot point Ghanaians to any law that creates any such offence as prohibiting and penalising ECG staff putting out the lights of a school you designate as a security installation.

The minister insists he had a verbal agreement with ECG over the debt and they breached that agreement by cutting power off to the university without recourse to him.

There is no discernible cause of action in that your empty threat to sue them and certain media houses.

WAEC in 2004 cautioned that “[a] nation that stands by and looks on while the rights of the individual are slowly pecked at, eventually pays the ultimate price of finding its own rights eroded.”

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