The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has asked Ghanaians to stop taking the law into their own hands and attacking suspected criminals.
Public Relations Officer for the GBA lawyer Saviour Kudze says our although the system is slow, justice would always be served against lawless people.
He was responding to the flogging of the two young persons who were alleged to have recorded a sex video in Wa.
He described it as barbaric and against the fundamental rights of the victims.
The Association’s Women and Minors Rights Committee has been tasked to “closely monitor and offer the necessary and required legal assistance to the unfortunate victims of the lawless and barbaric act”.
The GBA had earlier in a statement condemned the action describing it as “humiliating, dehumanizing, demeaning and degrading and amounts to the violation of their fundamental human rights, and on the attack on their persons.”
Lawyer Kudze we must not entertain such lawlessness because it will not help us as a people.
”Let us put a stop to mob action. It will create more problems for Ghanaians. There are laws in Ghana, and when people offend the law, the Police will investigate and prosecute the offenders. We must exercise patience and allow the appropriate agencies to deal with such crimes,” he added.
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Hear this, as lawyers you should equally be interested in why Ghanaians of late resort to instant Justice. The answer is simple, they have lost confidence and trust in the police and the courts. It used not to happen so why is it happening now. When you say rule of law, it must apply to all. Today we have a wide range of media both electronic and print media every where. People carry radio sets to their farms and while working they listen to what ever is happening around them. Only recently someone was fined GHC 5,000.00 by a judge for selling dogs without a license. Another person is keeping wildlife ( leopards) at his home in a residential area, that one nobody sees anything wrong with it, same country. If the other residents in that community decides to attack the ' leopard man', for putting their lives at risk, will they be justified? You all heard it in the news. Today people are witnesses to certain crimes but they will never go to court to testify because you will waste all your precious time there and still can't be assured of the truth. You see white fiili, fiili and want people to believe is black, why won't there be instant Justice? As lawyers you know that the criminal offences act and cyber crime act frowns on publishing / circulating nude pictures , what are you saying about that one. If 'A' is not triggered 'B' will not happen. Does the laws of Ghana permit individuals to keep wild animals at home? Go to the Bolgatanga dog market and arrest dog traders for selling dogs without license. You will see what you have never seen before. When 2 people does wrong, you start from number 1 before going to number 2, you don't jump to number 2 leaving number 1 behind. Before the white man came to Africa we had laws which were working perfectly, you can't claim today's laws are much better or superior. Truth was one, today truth has become a rat, when people see it they start throwing stones. If law is about who can lie best to get his/ her freedom, then.. .. .... .... . In Ghana when you have money a simple case can travel 3-4 years running, when poor, that one the judge can pass sentence in a matter of hours, you think the people are not seeing all these. We see.