The dead silence by upright Ghanaians to put pressure on government to cease enlisting thugs in the state security is creating tension in the state security services and that can spark anarchy in 2020, Brigadier General rtd. Joseph Nunoo-Mensah has observed.
He underscored that revered and patriotic officers in the military and police have been cowed from coming out to act independently of manipulation and politics, for fear of being victimised by the government.
“The courage of these officers and men in the army and police have been suppressed and the way we are going, I am afraid for Ghana will be lost if we go the way we are going,” Nunoo-Mensah retired explained.
He said a lot of criminal liabilities by thugs have been perpetuated on innocent unarmed citizens in the past two years and no drastic action had been taken against the perpetrators.
He said mature Ghanaians, who have the muscles to loudly condemn the registers of act of violence by vigilante groups, have recoiled into their shells, when not too long ago, they were very passionate about speaking on every little national issue in the previous government.
“The NDC and NPP cannot detach themselves from the use of hoodlums in this country, though the NPP is leading the league log now. If you have political parties whose leaderships do not have confidence in the state security they themselves have highly politicised, we can only expect records of criminal liabilities as we are witnessing today,” Brigadier General Mensah said.
“We cannot build our democracy on violence and if we do not take care
and thread cautiously, our country will be consumed and it will have been too late for the men and women of integrity to speak up,” he cautioned.
He encouraged brave, sincere retired service personnel, who had served
Ghana with integrity, to be heard speaking on the recent deadly happenings in the country “because this country is collapsing and it’s going down under our watch as courageous men and women who served our country with integrity.”
The former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) said that the military’s inability to more the ruthless conduct of vigilantism and be bold to dismiss political enlistment into the armed forces is worrying.
By: Umar Sheriff/awakenewsonline.com