News:
March 15, 2018
Member of Parliament for Bekwai and First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei Owusu is worried over the way and manner in which the law enforcement agencies and members of the general public look on unconcerned as the environment is being destroyed.
According to the First Deputy Speaker, wrongdoers have had their way in the country for far too long, leading to the breakdown in law and order, most especially in the mining sector.
He further revealed that current laws are not punitive and deterrent enough to ward off evildoers and call on the security to deal with the wrongdoers ruthlessly.
“There are some countries as recently as the 60s if you littered you were shot in the street. That was the law and they implemented it. Sometimes we need to be strong on wrongdoers,” the MP for Bekwai remarked.
“We are pampering wrongdoers in this country too much and they are not many. So Mr. Speaker, I think we should stand by the military and we should all stand together to ensure that our water bodies are clean and safe,” he said.
He was contributing to a statement on the floor of the House concerning the burning of trucks and excavators allegedly used for sand winning in the Kumbungu constituency.
He added, “I have made some very extreme suggestions and I know people are not happy about that, but regrettably I don’t have the authority and if I had I would have made the law that if you find people on the water body shoot them. That is how recalcitrant those people are.”
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com