Nana Yaa Jantuah
While we congratulate the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for a decent demonstration last week, devoid as it was of breaches of peace and public order, same cannot be extended to a certain Chief Superintendent of Police and Nana Yaa Jantuah.
While the senior police officer, a certain Chief Superintendent Atuluk, put up a threatening posture, Nana Yaa Jantuah, a presidential staffer, on the other hand, found in the demonstration an opportunity to pour cold water over it with a deliberate lie.
As for the senior cop, many who saw him in that mode wondered whether he felt he owned the country. No wonder he was videoed when he uttered those useless threats.
Let us deal with the senior police officer’s silly threats of ‘dealing with them’ utterance and his cow-face posture. The ‘them’ referred to the demonstrators, and he reminded followers of international affairs of the ‘cockroach party in India’.
The import of his posture was about his readiness to vent his anger on the demonstrators. Perhaps by emptying many canisters of teargas on them. Does he not know that he is being paid with taxpayers’ money and that any foolish move on his part could have landed him in trouble?
The deployed cops comported themselves well because, after all, the demonstrators they were paid to protect were disciplined and did not show the rowdy nature associated with others.
Not so however Chief Superintendent Atuluk, as his name tag showed.
Thousands of Ghanaians have served in the Ghana Police Service as far back as the Gold Coast Constabulary days and retired successfully, and others passed on. Let those in uniform today not be fooled by the state power in their possession temporarily by acting untowardly to please megalomaniac politicians. These politicians would abandon them when the heat is turned on them.
It was disappointing that a Chief Superintendent who should guide the Other Ranks under him would do as Atuluk did.
By now he would have heard or even watched his image on social media uttering the unnecessary threats.
The Police College he attended did nothing to refine him unfortunately. We pray that he does not infect those under him with his crudeness and unprofessional conduct even at that rank as he looks forward to becoming an Assistant Commissioner in the not distant future.
We all have a country to protect and to serve in various ways.
Nana Yaa Jantuah played the gender card unsuccessfully when she claimed that she was disrespected by Hon Alexander Afenyo-Markin. All he meant was that she was not the appropriate person to receive the petition from the demonstrators.
There was no misogynistic traits in the Minority Leader’s opposition to her receiving the petition, her role as Presidential Staffer considering the rankings of the opposition leadership presenting the petition. That was all there was to it and not the negativities she sought to bring into the subject.
That is how politics has gotten to in this country. Let them hear who have ears, because Ghanaians are ready to protect democracy irrespective of government machinations.