Open letter to the New Acting Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Dampare Akufo

Our dear Dr George Dampare Akufo, kindly permit me to take this opportunity to congratulate you for your fantastic achievements, more especially, your new and enviable position.

I pray and hope that God gives you the necessary gifts that you need, to perform your duties with extraordinary professionalism.

As I congratulate you, I would like to encourage you to see yourself as someone, who has come to serve God and Ghana and not parochial interest of any political party.

Kindly do everything possible to be your own man and never allow any politician to use you, as a remote control.

I know very well that you are a human being, but do everything possible to reject anything coming from the ruling government, that is completely against your conscience and Christian principles; just for the sake of Ghana, that you have accepted to serve, out of season and in season.

Be very bold to speak truth to the President and the government, that he leads, as far as your work is concerned.

Kindly do well to sympathize with the suffering masses of Ghana and do your best to alleviate their sufferings, whenever possible.

Therefore, whenever they pour on the streets to reasonably demand justice, better conditions of service and basic necessities of life, from the ruling government, please, do not add insults to injury to aggravate their misery.

Do everything necessary to support and guide them to exercise their constitutional right, in order to liberate themselves from excessive exploitation, abject poverty, slavery and misery.

Always be mindful of the fact that peaceful demonstrations are the most effective and powerful tool, for putting every ruling government, that is insensitive to the misery of the people entrusted to its care, on its toes, to pay attention to the sufferings of the underprivileged, and do the needful.

Peaceful demonstrations are the most powerful and effective means of achieving freedom and justice, from the hands of a ruling government, that is interested in exploiting and enslaving its citizens to its advantage.

Consequently, kindly use your new position to establish a factual, pragmatic and sustainable system, that can encourage streets demonstrations, that can bring about rapid socio-economic development of Ghana.

As long as you remain the Inspector General of Police, never allow any ruling government, to use the police service, to intimidate and beat up citizens, who are only demonstrating peacefully, against activities of a ruling government, that are inimical to the rapid socio-economic development of Ghana.

Again, never allow any ruling government, to use the police service, to terrorize citizens, who are only demonstrating peacefully, to liberate themselves from exploitation, abject poverty, slavery and misery.

Always do well to let the police service, be a catalyst in the masses efforts in reasonably demanding the best for themselves and Ghana as a whole.

Kindly see what you can do to improve the welfare of the Ghanaian police, so that those who come to the roadside, to assist drivers to do the needful, give up the unfortunate old age habit of forcefully demanding money from drivers.

We love our men and women in the police service very much, so kindly use your office to help them, to be very professional, in performing their duties with a human face.

I would like to encourage you to believe and accept the fact that peaceful demonstrations are the only language that the African Ruling Government understands better. And that they are more powerful and effective than the courts of our land.

In Ghana, a ruling government is capable of refusing to abide by a ruling of our court, in order to serve its own parochial and political interest, to the detriment of the citizenry. But, there is no way it can ignore, reasonable demands of the masses of Ghana when the masses give an ultimatum.

May God, who has allowed you to rise to such a high position, bless you and continue to be with you, as you take up your new job.

Written by

Rev. Fr. Ignatius James Yaw Amponsah

Akyem Ntronang

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