Veteran journalist, Kwesi Pratt has bemoaned the manner government handles security issues in the country.
He was reacting to Assin lawmaker, Kennedy Agyapong’s threat to a multimedia journalist calling for people to beat the journo up.
According to Mr Pratt it is worrying that persons like the lawmaker can sit on television and radio and call for someone to be beaten without facing any sanctions.
“This is a country in which a Member of Parliament can actually sit on television, sit on radio, and instigate people to beat up a journalist, and he says, I’ll pay for it. Now, when somebody says beat somebody and I’ll pay for it, what does it mean? Is it to pay for the fine? Is it to bribe those who are going to be investigating the matter? Is it to bribe the judiciary when the matter gets to the court? This is a very weird situation, and we cannot allow this to continue forever,” he said on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana.
“And then there is the case of how we handle persons in power, and how we handle persons out of power. As we speak, there are some opposition elements who are facing trial for statements they allegedly made which threatened individual security and so on. This will never go to trial. If you know the trend of what has been happening in this country, I don’t think that this will ever go to trial and that’s the most unfortunate part. We should treat citizens as equals – the principle of the equality of citizenship is lost in our country, and I’m very deeply worried,” he said.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
