IGP defends shutdown of Kukurantumi Police Station following clash by irate youth
Following an attack by irate youth, Christian Tetteh Yohuno, the Inspector General of Police, has defended the decision to close the Kukurantumi Police Station.
The suspected death of a suspect in police custody prompted the attack.
The IGP’s remarks follow concerns over the closure expressed by Abena Osei Asare, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Chairperson and Member of Parliament for Atiwa East, at a hearing of the PAC.
“We all have to condemn the acts of irate youths who are always attacking police stations. There’s a community in this country where we have one police station, which is a divisional headquarters, being built by the government, and then we have another that is a district headquarters being built by the locals themselves.
“When they were going to attack, they went to the building that was built by the government, and they burned the building down.
They came to their local building, and somebody said, No, no, this one was built by the MP, so let us not touch it. So they didn’t touch it. And so today, when you are in your area and you are asking us, we should come and open a police station; we will ask you to build a police station yourself.
“All those areas where there are these disturbances, they never attacked the stations that were built by the community themselves. And it is not good for this country. And so if you ask about closing down, yes, we’ll close down because you have destroyed the station.” He said.
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