Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr., has praised Interior Minister Muntaka Mubarak for his decision to review police escorts for private citizens.
The minister has directed the police administration to justify why some individuals receive police protection at their homes and offices while others are escorted through traffic by police outriders.
Speaking at the Police Headquarters in Accra, Muntaka raised concerns over the growing number of police officers assigned to protect private individuals, often facilitating their movement through city traffic.
“You go around our country and see so many of your men and women protecting private individuals, whether at their homes or escorting them in traffic. How much scrutiny have you done on these individuals? Is it because they are a pastor, an imam, or a businessman?” he questioned.
Reacting to this in a social media post on Wednesday, April 2, veteran journalist Kwesi Pratt commended the minister’s stance, stressing that the excessive use of police outriders and sirens violates traffic regulations.
“The Honourable Mohammed Muntaka, the Minister of Interior, is on the right track.
“The number of people driving on our roads with police outriders blaring their sirens is just too much and offends all traffic regulations.
“The practice has been seriously abused over the years, and bringing order to police escort duties is most certainly a sensible thing to do,” he wrote.
