The Ghana Police Service has been advised to consider screening all the police personnel who were repatriated by the United Nation (UN) Peacekeeping Mission from South Sudan over alleged sexual abuse.
Professor Kojo Gavua, who is an International Relations Expert said, whether the allegations were true or not, the police personnel should be screened because they could have contracted various form of ailments from their alleged female sexual victims.
He is of the view that, if such screening and checkups are not done, they can infect their female counterparts with strange ailments in case they contracted any.
Forty-six personnel from the Formed Police Unit on a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan were recalled for allegedly abusing some vulnerable citizens in that country.
These police working on a UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan were investigated for breaching the UN’s sexual exploitation and abuse rules and were repatriated on Wednesday, May 30, 2018.
The Director of the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau (PIPS), COP Kofi Boakye, upon the arrival said, the Police Service is awaiting the United Nations to complete investigations on the matter before the Police Service will brief Ghanaians on investigations.
“The Inspector General of Police sent a high powered delegation to South Sudan. They completed their investigation and the Police is awaiting the investigation from UN because they have to compare notes on the various investigations to have a comprehensive report. After that is done, I know the Inspector General of Police will not hesitate to inform you of the results, but meanwhile, the policemen are still in South Sudanâ€, COP Boakye told the media in Accra.
Commenting on the development in an interview with Prime News Ghana on Thursday May 31, 2018, Prof Gavua said “the Ghana Police should not take it likely the allegations against those who were on the mission to South Sudanâ€.
“They should be taken the hospital for medical checkups because they might have contracted some diseasesâ€, he added.
Prof Gavua noted that some Ghanaian police are indiscipline and that was why such things happened to them.
“Our police are indiscipline domestically and now it has gone internationally and that is worryingâ€, he explained.
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