Thursday 10 June 2010

Ghana News: Accra Mail : Main News Chief of Defense Staff and IGP to appear before Parliament


CAMERON DUODU
writes:
The military's superiority over the police is a fact. It is because, of course, the military are provided with superior weapons and their training and deployment are all geared towards giving them "a monopoly of power" in society.

So long as there is no "mutiny" in the country, it is only the military administration can, uniquely, stop military harassment of the police and civilians. It can order the MILITARY police to enforce regulations regarding the movement of soldiers, either singly or in groups, both in and out of barracks. And it can strictly enforce discipline by the judicious use of guard-room detentions, followed by serious examination of the causes of detentions, and where necessary, the institution of courts-martial to try offences of indiscipline, as provided by the military's own "orders".

A soldier without the support of the military institution becomes mentally marooned, like a fish out of water. So the institution should use that psychological hold over soldiers to good effect for providing adequate protection to the populace against what the military themselves term "the mad dogs of war". That is what soldiers are, when the military administration refuses to control them, while mindlessly issuing them with superior weapons (over which they have a monopoly.)


Ghana News: Accra Mail : Main News Chief of Defense Staff and IGP to appear before Parliament

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