Last Monday’s lead story of the Daily Gist was as interesting as it was surreal although it involved destructive of properties and perhaps presented a close shave with death persons who were around when the incident occurred.
The man who pretends to be obsessed with ensuring that the right things are done in society has himself breached the law.
Special Prosecutor Kissi Agyebeng was last weekend reported to while driving rammed into a container kiosk in his neighbourhood of Agbogba in Accra.
It was an accident but what happened in the aftermath of the accident has attracted worrying commentaries and expectedly so.
He was said to be at the wheels and could have been inebriated according to some eyewitnesses.
Some of those who dared take shots of the scene of the accident were reported to have been arrested and detained in police cells overnight.
The reason they were detained was flimsy hence their release without any charge being preferred against them. If this is not abuse of power we do not what else can pass for that.
Since when did using mobile phones to take shots of accident scenes constitute criminal offences in the country?
If this is a new law the Special Prosecutor is contemplating having included in our laws we are yet to learn.
Warning shots were also fired at the scene of the accident and that also sounds curious. Why were the shots fired and who was behind the action? Could it be the Special Prosecutor himself who fired the shots and for what purpose?
At the time of composing this commentary we were yet to read any statement from the Special Prosecutor or even the Police.
Has the Special Prosecutor reported the accident to the Police? Will he do so? What will the consequences of his refusal to do as the law requires be?
Shouldn’t those who hold such important positions as Special Prosecutor exude good conduct in society?
The suspicion over his possible inebriation when he was behind the wheels raises a further moral question as to why such a personality be involved in drunk-driving offence.
Our hearts go to the fruit seller who had to forfeit her stuff when soldiers swarmed the accident scene where she sells and confiscated her investments.
She would have to start from scratch her investments having gone to waste.
It is curious why soldiers will quickly collect all pieces of evidence from the location leaving nothing for investigators to work on as they probe the accident.
We might not get answers to the foregone questions and under the circumstances we can only cross our fingers and hope that perhaps some statements might eventually originate from the Special Prosecutor or the Police.
