This Hooliganism Nonsense Must Stop Now

Commentary

In fact, it is sad to note that there are a large number of people still living on the soils of this country who do not know what Ghana’s democracy is about, and therefore, will choose to do whatever pleases them.

With the level of the nation’s highly cherished democratic dispensation, it’s nothing but a total disgrace to hear in the news that a group, whose boss was standing trial in court for alleged involvement in illicit drugs trade, has been displaying gross misconduct as if their man was above the laws of the land. We vehemently condemn the conduct of the ‘Tudu Mighty Jets’ playing body and its supports, who without even waiting to be briefed on what transpired at the court on Friday 9th September, 2011 after their boss was arrested by Mr. Yaw Akrasi Sarpong’s Narcotic Control Board, attacked journalists who had gone to cover the proceedings.

Whether or not their man (Abubakari Nallah) deals in drugs, it is up to the court to determine, so why should his followers behave in such an awful manner, endangering the lives of innocent journalists who have gone to court to carry out their constitutionally mandated duty, dragging the country’s highly respected image in the mud.

By this Editorial, we are calling on the nation’s security agencies not to spare any group or individual that may put up similar behaviour at the next appearance of the drug suspects, and make sure that they dance to the tune of the law. This silly attitude can no longer be tolerated and people must be made to dance to the music of their own behaviour; and those of the Tudu Mighty Jets (we mean the players and their supporters), must be used as example, so others could learn from it.

By the rather weird conduct of the so-called sympathizers of Abubakari Nallah, his case must be thoroughly investigated to ensure that he does not escape punishment, since his people have decided to go on the rampage, beating journalists in solidarity with him.

Although we sympathize enough with our colleagues who suffered molestations in the hands of these irate element, we are at the same time calling on media houses to properly equip their reporters with maximum security at such trials, so they do not suffer unnecessary attacks.

Like we have indicated above, we are humbly appealing to the security agencies to beef up security at the courts, so as to prevent such ugly occurrences in the near future, as they deal with recalcitrant characters who might want to take the law into their own hands.