Some Angels Among Us!

The paper last week had calls to complain about the behavior of some military and police officers deployed to enforce the 14 day knockdown imposed by the president.

Barley a week after the imposition, social media is awashed with videos capturing uniformed military and police officers brutalizing unarmed civilians.

This necessitated calls from the information minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the Military High Command and even the Interior Minister Ambrose Dery to speak about the worrying phenomena.

The paper still advocates that the police and military personnel involved in these acts should be told the truth that they cannot be lawyers and judges in their own courts where they on their own adjudicate a case, pass judgement and meet out corporal punishment in this day and age.

We have seen confirmed video footages of police men flogging adults who they believed have flouted the directive and they have no shame doing same in front of the cameras.

But in all of these is this single soldier THE NEW PUBLISHER wants to single out for praise for his exemplary contribution to the fight against COVID-19.

The others are not doing a bad job but the Commanding Officer, 48 Engineers Regiment, Lt. Col. Michael Kwame Afreh Mfum, has been trending on social media for educating a group of commuters  on a commercial bus (Trotro) about coronavirus.

While other security personnel turned people away for not adhering to social distancing directives, Lt. Col. Mfum in a video widely circulated on Facebook was seen taking people through the measures they should adhere to, in order to protect themselves and their families from the virus.

The paper holds that these are the men the military must deploy in times like this to change the very bad name the military has among the citizenry.

THE NEW PUBSLIHER we urges the military high command to promote Lt. Col. Mfum to serve as an example for those who think all the military is about is to molest tubborn civilians.

The military has become synonymous with brutality, cruelty and excessive use of brute force in situations that requires simple human face to address.

Lt. Col. Mfum has certainly shown the way, there must be a paradigm shift. The time is now!