By Kofi Boateng
'#ProtectUs'
seems to be gaining more attention on many social media platforms. The
people of this country can only cry out for themselves as the
parliamentarians, who are supposed to do so, cares more about their
political parties' fortune than the people who put them in parliament.
Recently, gory narratives and images have been circulating in the media. It
seems criminals believe our secuirity portfolios are impotent and lack
the required intelligence and resources to fight the incessant robbery
attacks occuring around the country, mostly in the capital. As a
result, the secuirity of our country seems to be swinging dangerously on a
brittle branch attached to a tree having no roots.
In the space of two months, begining this year,24 armed robbery attacks have been recorded around the Oyibi, Adenta area.
According
to the reports, it is clear that these criminals see no value in human
life. A 67-year old man's head was reportedly crashed with a concrete
slab.
Another man was also shot and thrown at the
back of his home. A lady was reportedly raped twice by two robbers
after they took her money. Shops are been robbed and robbers are
stealing in broad day light. A lebanese national unfortunately lost his
life in a similar incident.
As
worrying as the situation is, my fear is the over-politicisation of
"even the air we breath" in this country. This pushes the real situation
to the background and politicians take advantage of the phenomenon to
score points for the next elections.
The
minority has spoken to the media, trumpeting these horiffic incidents
and attacking every existing security aparatus controlled by the
NPP government, as if "a fly was not hurt under their watch."
That
is the politics we understand. But as the NPP criticised incessantly every
decision made by the NDC when they were in opposition and proffered
little or no alternative ideas in solving such connundrums, so is the
NDC acting in opposition. Is our interest their interest? It seems not.
We
the people who gets stuck in traffic for hours before and after school ,
or work, care less about the rhetorics of the NDC and the NPP.
WE
CARE ABOUT HOW WE CAN REACH OUR POTENTIAL IN A SERENE SOCIETY. WE CARE
ABOUT HOW OFTEN WATER RUNS THROUGH OUR TAPS. WE CARE ABOUT HOW OUR
GOVERNMENTS CAN FIND A PERMANENT SOLUTION TO THE ERRATIC POWER
SITUATION.
WE CARE VERY MUCH ABOUT THE PROPER
USAGE OF OUR TAXES. MORE IMPORTANTLY, WE WANT TO BE ASSURED THAT WE CAN
LIVE OUR LIFES WITHOUT LOOKING OVER OUR SHOULDERS FOR THE FEAR OF BEEN
ATTACKED.
We now cry out
in unison as one people, to our leaders for them to take our needs into
considseration for ones. They must nib this canker in the bud before it
becomes impossible to fight.
We cannot live in
constant fear whiles those who are suppose to protect us, still take
salaries for little or no work done. And positions are still been
occupied by inept officers.
Knee-jerk solutions will not help us in any way.
Tackling unemployment is a must or else these are just the beginning of worst days to come.
The time is now or never. #ProtectUs
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