Our take on police highhandedness
The recent daylight firing done by some delta police on armless civilians at Elk street has sent wrong signals in the mindsets of people at these elixirs of days closer to the November 17 elections.
The argument in place has been on the position of the delta police whose gun was wanted away by the irate and intoxicated youths. Let us imagine that these youths succeeded in dispossessing the police officer of his fire arm –what do you think would have happened? The delta man in question was sure to face death while the confiscated weapon would serve their nefarious purposes.
The unprecedented firing is not justified–rather we see a wicked ploy by the delta man in question to unleash wicked execution against armless suspects.
This police personnel need to be told that their so called mistakes were being timed by most of the youths whom have suspected that their firing spree is in for mischief. If we should calculate the wrongs of the police’s decision to always gun down armless persons it would amount to the thought that, certain people would one day rise equal to their challenge to have them taste the feeling of their mistakes.
The Brookfield’s saga of May 11, and the Inter Secondary Schools sports fiasco are testaments to youthful violence in the country; however, it is justifiable for the police to always carried out their job professionally in nipping in the bud some of these inadequacies but without taking someone else’s life.
The police’s explanation on the recent firing spree of four suspected criminals is still unconvincing. Whether they want us to believe that they lack the know-how to arrest and bring to book suspected criminals or using fire-arms as recipe to combat crimes is difficult to determine which way.
As the Krio saying goes, “Bad bush nor dae for tro-way bad pekin,” meaning there is no dust-bin to dispose-off bad children; we cannot disband the entire police force because of some few rotten eggs. Instead, the police force needed a transformation to make them the force for good they should be.
By E. Awotelli-Cole & M. S. Biro
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