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LECTURER; MR TIM QUASHIGAH

COURSE; FEATURE WRITING


COURSE CODE; COD 110
STUDENT INDEX NUMBER; DCS 17083 (DIPLOMA 1A)
ASSIGNMENT TOPIC; COLD BLOODED KILLINGS AND THE NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENDA

COLD BLOODED KILLINGS AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY AGENDA.


In recent times,there has been several reports of cold bloode serial type of
killing in the country where some has been linked to political assasinations as
a result of internal party feuds while some are linked to contract killing and
crimnal masterminds which has lead to fatalities and cause fear and panic
amongs Ghanaians and foreigners living in the country.
Recent among this killings is the cold blooded murder of Abuakwa North
Member of Parliament MP, JB Danquah Adu, who was reportedly stabbed
several times in the chest,causing his death at his Shiashie residence in
Accra. The murdered Abuakwa North MP was the grandson of late J.B
Danquah, a Ghanaian statesman, pan-Africanist, scholar and historian, who
played an impeccable role in pre- and post-colonial Ghana.
This will take us back to the gruesome murder of Mr Rokko Frimpong,Deputy
Managing Director of the Ghana Commercial Bank in his Spintex Road
residence on June 19, 2007. Before the murder of Mr Frimpong were that of
the Former Deputy Financial Controller of Ghana Telecom Mr. Kwaku Awuah
Boateng, 61, who was shot dead with AK 47 assault rifles with three

members of his household at his house in Dome Pillar Two, a suburb of Accra
in 2005;Nana Bretuo III, the Chief of Nyankumase-Adansi in the Ashanti
Region was killed on May 31, 2006; Nana Badu Boakye Dankwa of
MimAkyiase, near Kumasi, was also killed on December 12, in the same year.
Other cases involved Samuel Ennin, the Chairman of the Ashanti Regional
Branch of the Ghana Journalists Association, who was killed on February 9,
2007, and a 71-year-old Lebanese businessman, Zakaria Dennaoui, who was
killed on April 28, of the same year.
In January 2008, unidentified gun men shot and killed a 56-year-old man,
Alhaji Mumuni Hamidu and his 20-year-old son, Dawuda Mohamed at their
residence at the Regimanuel Estates near Sakumono.
In July of the same year, Kwame Kyei Apenteng-Mensah, Managing Director
of Summit Industries was also murdered.
This despicable act of suspected contract killings became severe in December
2013 when a 36-year-old Immigration officer, Kofi Quist Defor was murdered
in cold-blood by unidentified men in his home at Mataheko in the KponeKatamanso Constituency near Tema.
In that same year,Rosemond Nyampong of Stanbic Bank and Kwesi Sakyi
Prah, a Branch Manager of Zenith Bank were also brutally murdered by
unkown assailants.
The Chief of Joma, Nii Ayittey Noryatse, was in March 2014, found dead in
his room, a nearby village to Ablekuma in the Greater Accra Region, with
police suspecting that he was shot.
A day after the Chief's murder report, Fennec Okyere, controversial hiplife
artiste, Kwaw Kese's manager was shot dead by unknown assailant(s) on
the morning of March 13, 2014 at his Manet Gardens residence on the
Spintex Road,in Accra.
Samuel Denis Ayibah, a 55-year-old businessman, was shot and killed by two
unidentified gunmen while parking his new Toyota Highlander vehicle with
registration number GT 449-14,in that same month of March 2014 .
It was also reported in the month of December 2014, the death of Ecobank
Gh Ltd Manager Richard Sallah, who was shot dead in his home at Abrepo in
Kumasi in the Ashanti region .
Subsequently in 2015, the chief of Atwima Koforidua , Nana Adusa Gyapong,
in the Ashanti Region,was gunned down by unknown gunmen after a visit to

his construction site in the town.


Then came in November 2015, the District Chief Executive (DCE) for
Nkwanta South, in the Volta Region Mr. Peter Kojo Kenyeso who was shot
dead.
A 30-year-old marketing officer of Vodafone Ghana, Mr Ebo PanfordQuainoo, was also a victim in that same month attacked by two unidentified
armed robbers at his residence at Sakumono,in the Greater Accra Region.
Looking at killings throughout the country over the past decade, one would
make an argument that the trend is growing at an alarming rate. Ghana is
not familiar with these reports of cold blooded killings.Except for a few
citizens who read about it and or watched it on television who are at a loss
on the severity of the trend.
The question that comes in mind is what are the motivations to these killings
which is now on the rise? The Ghana Police have said that a few of the
motive for the killings might be varied including chieftaincy disputes, land,
economic, and political.
I will throw a question here at the National Security adviser on how the
National Security outfit seeks to address or control these killings if not
possibly eliminate and ensure that some of the crimes are detected and
thwarted before they are being committed by the perpetrators?.Fear and
Panic has to be taken out of the citizens worries,though the Ghana Police has
improved on their visibility at various locations. Also recent arresting of
motorbikes that are not registered and unregistered vehicles using temporal
vehicle registration number plates.
Members of Parliaments are shocked and upset about the happenings and
have awaken the call for the state to provide security for them.
A few number of the cases mentioned above are left unresolved. Even
though the police made some arrests, full prosecution are yet to be done.The
police have over the years assured Ghanaians of their safety, citing several
approaches being adopted to fight the growing incidence of 'contract killings'.
The Director of Public Relations of the Ghana Police Service, Cephas Arthur
has assured Ghanaians of their safety and security and that his outfit has
dispatched a number of plain-clothes detectives into communities to help
detect some of these crimes.But as the perpetrators of these crimes
continue to possibly walk the streets, it becomes imperative for us all, not
only security agencies, to be on high alert.

My suggestion will be for the Ghana Police to be well resourced with tracking
gadgets,drones for monitoring actvities and maintaining satellite
surveillance,cctv cameras installed in several locations,recruit more personnel
to meet the UN standard and acquire more current crime technology to aid in
detection of crimes and criminals. I believe the above suggestions will aid in
controlling crimes adequately.

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