Fix Ghana’s Security Challenges – Otumfuo charges IGP

The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, has urged the Ghana Police Service to quicken steps in finding a lasting solution to some security challenges facing the country.

The Asantehene said, resolving Ghana’s security issues is a good way of restoring the public’s confidence in the Ghana Police Service.

The Asantehene made the call when the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr James Oppong Boanuh, paid a courtesy call on him at Manhyia yesterday as part of his working tour of the Ashanti Region.

He made reference to the recent murder of the Mfantseman MP, in addition to some highway robberies, and said, these incidents, if left unresolved, have the tendency to reduce the citizens’ trust in the service.

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Otumfuo Osei Tutu also made reference to a recent report by the Commission on Small Arms and Light Ammunition on the rise in illegal arms in the system as an indication of the lack of trust in the service, hence the decision by people to arm themselves as a means of protection.

He said all those were challenges to the service and charged the police to use their training to resolve those crimes and win back the confidence of the public.

According to him, Ghanaian policemen were among the best on the continent and asked them to put their training to use to be able to bring the perpetrators of heinous crimes to book.

He said the role of the police in ensuring peace during the upcoming elections would also be very critical and appealed to them to live above reproach and dispense their responsibilities professionally.