Mob action: Let’s believe in our laws, police – Fredua

A leading member of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Fredua Agyeman, has called on educational institutions at all levels to work on the thinking of Ghanaians as far as mob action is concerned.

According to him, most Ghanaians believe that they need to take the law into their own hands because of the failure of the police to deal with culprits in such cases.

This, he said, was worrying because taking the law into one’s hands was criminal.

Contributing to a discussion on Saturday June 10 on TV3’s New Day on the lynching of Major Maxwell Mahama and his burial, he said: “There is a certain psychology that has to be put into our heads. We must want to believe that the laws will work so that nobody takes the laws into his own hands.

“We must have a certain thinking that our laws will work, we must have the belief that our police are good and strong enough about such matters. There is also the educational aspect. Are we being taught enough about what the laws are? Now, those people who killed Major Mahama are themselves criminals, they become criminals by their very actions, so is everybody who does such thing to anybody because you would have taken the law into your own hands.

“We need to teach them, the public needs to understand, that these are the laws and that they will work.”