By Stephen K. Effah
Wednesday, 02 April 2008
Solomon Abam Quaye, District Chief Executive of the Awutu-Senya District Assembly, says the increasing rate of indiscipline in the country should be blamed on politicians who fail to bring offenders to justice for fear of losing votes.
"When an incumbent government takes action against offenders, parties in opposition take advantage and pollute the minds of the people and incite them against the government," he observed.
"We can never move forward as a people if we continue to be indiscipline and lawless," he said and urged all, including the media and the opposition to support the government’s efforts at ridding the country of lawlessness.
Mr Abam Quaye was speaking at a ceremony to mark the start of work on a multi-purpose commercial centre at the Kasoa new market on Monday.
The one-stop-shop is a collaboration between the district assembly and Kabod Kadel Company Limited, a private investment company.
He said, for instance, the shortage of water in Accra and elsewhere has been placed at the doorstep of government, forgetting that the people’s own actions, like dumping of refuse in rivers and illegal water connections have caused that.
He also criticised the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) for some of its actions, saying the organisation is not proactive by its actions making it a recipe for indiscipline.
Mr Quaye said the organisation does not advise people to apply for permit before building, or stop creating slums, or stop dumping refuse into streams, but is the first to blame government for human rights violations for taking action against such people.
"CHRI will always blame government and possibly take legal action against it, a situation which encourages the people to perpetuate indiscipline."
However, Mr Quaye said the assembly is prepared to collaborate with the CHRI to deal with human rights issues at the local level so that the people can fully benefit from development projects that come their way.
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