Samson's Take: Punish the criminal 'vigilante' take-overs II | Newsfile

now here is something stake and this part two of punishing the criminal vigilante takeovers in part one I pointed to how the ritual TG by party foot soldiers in locking out and violent takeover of government offices was not only unconstitutional but punishable as crimes because the threats of harm threats of death that are being issued

to these people officers uh assault that is happening trespass onto property and damage to property as well are all arrestable offenses in Ghana but just somehow we're seeing the police acting unable to deal with this how funny where outgoing officials are caught looting and we have seen some footages to that effect you can exercise what is a

constitutional right to take evidence to prevent it from happening or you can affect what is known as citizens arrest so when these young people you gather together and go to a place you feel there's some Looting of government property going on you can take evidence of what is happening and bring in the police you

are required by law to hand over the suspect if you arrested someone we are not supposed to mishandle them manhandle them you're supposed to hand them over to the nearest police officer or police station and sometimes your fear is that they will not do what is useful so police the process and make sure they

are taken into custody and dealt with but one effective way to stop this embarrassing ritual is for government to pay attention to the structures as set up by the transition law there is urgent need to Resource the office of the administrator General and the estate units as created by the law the Law's requirement is that there