Police; Courts Not Helping To Fight NPP Rioters – Methodist Bishop

The Presiding Bishop of the Methodist church of Ghana, The Most Reverend Titus K. Awotwe Pratt, has expressed dissatisfaction in the failure of the Ghana police service to clamp down on the activities of rioting foot soldiers of the governing New Patriotic Party.

The Methodist Bishop was speaking in an exclusive interview with Ultimate News on the sidelines of an induction service of the right reverend Samuel Menash as Bishop of Fosu Diocese at Assin Fosu in the Central region.

Attacks on public offices, district assemblies and police stations by supporters of the governing party especially in the Northern and Upper East regions Specifically Karaga and Sisala West have lately become worrisome.

Most of these groups whose actions threaten the peace and security of the nation, have justified their actions claiming such officers and chief executives have failed to reward them with jobs after helping to secure electoral victory for the party.

But speaking to Ultimate News’ Isaac Badiako Justice, the vociferous Methodist Bishop lashed out at the courts and the police for contributing to the mess by treating the menace with kid gloves.

He insisted that the recent judgement handed down the 13 Delta force members who were fined a thousand eight hundred cedis each for rioting was “a slap in the face of justice.”

“Even the judgement in Kumasi about those boys is a slap in the face of justice because you can’t behave like this and then be charged to pay this flimsy money and then turn free. It is not good.” he fumed.

The Most Reverend Titus K. Awotwe Pratt didn’t spare the Inspector General of police describing as disgraceful episodes that required the president Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo Addo to issue stern directives before the police exacted action.

“We want to see the IGP acting and working to nip this thing in the bud so that it doesn’t happen again. It is disgraceful that the police will wait for people to misbehave for the head of state to say arrest those people before you go and arrest them,” he insisted.

He also called for all executives of the New Patriotic Party and ministers of state whose actions contribute to these riots to be made to lose their offices for sanity to prevail.