Editorial: Brazen impunity

If the Ghana Police Service headquarters management team sought to use a press conference to win public support for their business-killing and infamous raid on the warehouse of Kinapharma, they missed it, attracting rather public opprobrium. The raid, according to them, was informed by a tip-off they received about the presence of narcotic substances in the warehouse.

They accordingly descended on the warehouse, tendentiously organizing coverage by a particular media house.

There was a hidden intention by whoever was pulling the strings in the security of darkness to cause collateral damage to the economy-boosting pharmaceutical set-up where 800 Ghanaian source their daily bread.

We had previously editorialized on this subject but compelled to return to it in this edition, given the controversies it has stirred across the country and beyond.
The terrible show has garnered a catalogue of minuses for our local investment climate even as officialdom continues to ape “we are committed to supporting local businesses to grow”.

Having organized 14 vehicles, with fuel bought by tax payers including Kinapharma and armed men remunerated from the same source, they landed on the warehouse, and thank God it was a hoax.
We would rather they bowed their heads in shame and say to the people of Ghana in general and Kinapharma in particular, “sorry.”

Indeed, had this happened in politically-civilized societies, the Police would have apologized profusely. These are places where the type of brazen impunity displayed by the Ghana Police would be unthinkable.

Asserting that they owe nobody an apology, to say the least, is most unprofessional of an institution like the Police and it pains to think that this is a reality and not a dream.

Source: Ghana News 

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