The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) President, Mr. Anthony Forson Junior has called on the Security Agencies to place greater emphasis on activities to prevent and control the factors that generate violence and insecurity, rather than purely reactive behaviors to consummate out.
He said the security while fighting crime should create a conducive environment to peaceful co-efficient and be optimistic that Government will take action urgently.
Speaking in Accra during the remembrance of Martyrs Day, a day set aside to commemorate the bestial and gruesome murder of three High Court judges together with a retired military officer, Mr. Anthony Forson Junior charged the Government to improve the quality of the Security services, especially the Police for the citizens to repost confidence in them.
June 30, 1982, remains a dark day in Ghana’s history as three high court judges were abducted and assassinated and were Justice Cecilia Koranteng-Addo, Justice Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong, Justice Fred Poku Sarkodie, and Major Sam Acquah (Rtd) – All three are remembered in an annual judicial service on the anniversary of their deaths called Martyrs Day.
On the night of June 30, 1982, three High Court judges – Mrs. Justice Cecilia Koranteng Addo, who was nursing a child, Justice Kwadwo Adjei Agyepong and Justice Poku Sarkodie – as well as a retired military officer in the Ghana Armed Forces, Major Sam Acquah, who was the Administrative Manager of the Ghana Industrial Holding Corporation (GIHOC), were abducted from their homes one after another. As family members became worried about their whereabouts and the state was determined to find and rescue them, their burnt bodies riddled with bullets were discovered in the Accra Plains.
A Special Investigation Board that was set up by the Provisional National Defence Council, headed by a former Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Azu Crabbe, indicted L/Cpl Amedeka, Tony Tekpor, Dzandu, Hekli, and Joachim Amartey Kwei. They were executed by firing squad, except Amedeka, who was said to have escaped from prison and has since not been found.
Through the unpleasant happenings, successes, and failures, Ghana has managed to craft a constitution and multiparty governance for herself, which has been operating for more than 26 years now. From our history and the instability that goes on around our neighboring countries, the Daily Graphic, like many citizens, gets worried that we seem to have taken the peace and stability that we are enjoying for granted.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Kofi Atakora
