The Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur has said he has a very difficult job speaking for the service.
According to him, though his work is very challenging it is not different from many other public duties.
The unenviable work of being a public relations officer of the Police Service is seen by many as the most challenging PR job to be done in Ghana, as the PRO is always in the public domain defending the actions and inactions of the service.
The PRO is most of the time made to defend the police service by adducing reasons and explanations which sometimes are very lame and simply defies logic.
Superintendent Cephas Arthur admitted to the difficult nature of his task in an interview with Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.3 FM while speaking to the issue of the police securing a restraining order for a second time to stop the Pressure group, Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) planned demonstration which was set for today, September, 29.
The police prayed the court for the injunction disclosing it had picked intelligence that suspected hardened criminals had planned an attack, rob and cause panic within Accra and other regions. Hence the police was undertaking a security exercise from 25-30th September in this regard and would be overstretched.
The police have come under huge public condemnation and are being accused of being used by government to suppress the democratic rights of the citizens to demonstrate.
Host Fiifi Banson told Superintendent Cephas Arthur: “I don’t envy your job at all. Your job is a difficult one; if not the most difficult. I say so because the explanations you’re giving me now are not sound at all, you are being made to defend the indefensible”.
But the Police PRO, responded; “Oh is that so, you see my work as difficult? Yes it is, but it is equally difficult like other jobs. We’re all doing our best to serve mother Ghana”.
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
