Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah, has commended the Ghana Police Service for their “professional handling of the demonstration” by the Democracy Hub group describing it as “refreshing and a step in the right direction towards upholding the constitutional right of freedom of expression in Ghana”.
MFWA boss in a Facebook post, commended the leadership of the Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare especially on the strategies and approach to handling the protestors
“It is gratifying to see our Police Service exercise such restraint while enforcing the law in the face of what appeared like a deliberate attempt to provoke them. This show of rare professionalism in policing certainly helps to deepen the growth of our democracy under this IGP and I will encourage him to continue with his exemplary leadership”.
“In the midst of our darkness from the dearth of good leadership and the resultant hopelessness, we see a bright light and hope from the Ghana Police Service. In the Ghana police of today, we don’t only see good leadership. We feel the evidence of good leadership.”
“The Ghana Police Service, we had always known, was quick to show demonstrators where power lies. It was the kind of police that will deploy brute physical force, tear gas, water cannons and bullets and all they have against demonstrators, and still call that ‘use of minimum force.’ The consequences had always been bleeding faces, broken limbs, lost eyes, etc.”
“What we now see is a very civil, decorous police, that is gentle yet forceful enough to ensure the enforcement of law and order. What we see in the Ghana Police Service of today are clear manifestations of what good leadership does. It is the same policemen and women. It is the same Ghana police service. What has changed is leadership.
May we have great leaders for all our institutions and country. Kudos to you, Dr. George Akufo Dampare, for your leadership. Keep it up.”