Avorga's Rambo assignment

Daniel Julius Avorga, the Commander of the Motor Traffic Unit of the Ghana Police Service

These are great moments for security personnel to show over-zealousness in their work with a view to attracting the attention of the authorities at the Castle.

Those who have found favours in this regard have not regretted for throwing professional ethics to the wind.

Mr. Daniel Julius Avorga, the Commander of the Motor Traffic Unit of the Ghana Police Service, does not want to lag behind and would do all he can to be part of the muscle-flexing squads.

He has succeeded in bringing his Unit to the fold of the cadre boys, ready to do the Castle's bidding. By this reprehensible decision, he would go down in the country's history as the man to politicize the MTU.

He wears the rank of an Assistant Commissioner of Police, a superior position in the internal security apparatus of state.

With such a rank, it behooves him to exhibit sterling qualities commensurate with the many years he has been in uniform.

Not so however, considering the man's action in the matter of Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchway and his subsequent radio station interventions in defence of the nasty action.

Since when did MTU personnel begin snatching people from their beds, reminiscent of the PNDC days? We are disgusted as are many other Ghanaians when we recall the manner in which he put forth his premises. He simply fouled the air, as simple as that!

Avorga should rather bow his head in shame for allowing himself to be used in undertaking the political action and going on air to defend the uncivil conduct.

Let him tell Ghanaians when he last ordered armed traffic cops to go and pick a driver at night for driving a vehicle without an insurance cover, a so-called offence committed five weeks earlier, so to speak.

This is outright balderdash, Mr. Avorga. He should not waste our time because most of us are intelligent and can read between the lines.

Let the ACP come again with his watery defence because he did not make any sense at all. We are wondering whether he has completed his assignment of ridding our roads, especially in Accra of rickety vehicles.

How many of such vehicles have the appropriate documentation?

Blimey! If Mr. Avorga wants to be considered for his next rank of Deputy Commissioner before proceeding on retirement, he should seek a more honourable approach than stoop to this level of subservience.

We are sorry at such a conduct from a man of Mr. Avorga's status. By his intervention, he has lost the respect of most Ghanaians as evidenced from the interventions of callers into a number of radio stations.

It sounds silly that he expected the lady to process such documents when the preceding transfer had been stopped through a presidential diktat.

We are worried by the creeping politicization of the Police Service through personalities like Avorga.

When such a personality heads a critical unit like the MTU, we should not expect any decency on our roads.

The man could have been spared the wrath of many Ghanaians had he shut up and avoided incensing us with those insulting premises. You do not have to misconduct yourself to earn your next rank, man!

We are sorry for Mr. Avorga and ask him to think about how he can redeem his image which by his action and subsequent intervention presents him as a man eager to please his bosses.

Undertaking a presidential diktat should bear a modicum of commonsense because the zombie approach opens you up for attacks. Poor Avorga!

Credit: Daily Guide