Military officer praised for disciplining student in public

The Vice President’s crusade against indiscipline received a big boost last Wednesday when hundreds of onlookers at the Kejetia Lorry terminal in Kumasi lauded a military officer who took pains to call an indecently dressed student to order in public.

The officer, who would not disclose his name, was riding on a motor-bike but had to pull up immediately he saw the student, who had pulled his shorts down to the extent that it hung loosely around the buttocks- a type of dressing referred to by the youth as Otto-Pfister.

He beckoned the unsuspecting student to come and pulled a cane to lash him. Sensing danger the boy quickly knelt down in front of the officer and begged to be pardoned, pleading never to dress in that manner again.

The officer granted the student’s plea but not after he had cautioned him and students among the gathered crowd that any student caught in any form of indecent dressing would be severely dealt with.

The name of the student and his school could not be immediately established, as he threatened to stone this reporter if he dared probe further into the matter.

When the dust had settled, the crowd engaged in an intensive discussion and debate. While a section of students around the place described the military officer’s action as a violation of the right of the student because he has the freedom to dress they way he likes, traders, drivers and passengers were full of praise for the officer for championing the way forward in curbing the escalating rate of indiscipline in society.

Members of the public interviewed expressed the opinion that the security agencies should be empowered to check indecent dressing in public places to help minimize if not eradicates the canker.