KMA city guards pass out of training
The Chief Executive Officer of the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA), Kojo Bonsu, is to table before the House a proposal for the introduction of guard dogs to beef up the security department of the assembly by January next year.
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The dogs will be positioned at vantage points in the Kumasi metropolis as a means of boosting public confidence, raising the image of the assembly and intensifying security for residents, particularly for traders in the Central Business District of the city.
He made this known in an interview with the Daily Graphic at the passing-out parade of 30 city guards who had graduating after a month of military training. He said the new measure would be in line with best practices in cities around the world, particularly in Europe and other advanced parts of the world.
The guards looked sharp and physically fit. They are the first batch of 100 city guards to undergo military training as part of a reform process the assembly is pursuing to get them to live up to their duties and responsibilities.
As part of their training, the guards were made to have the experience of armed combat, endurance, boxing, taekwando, drill exercises and self-defence, how to regulate traffic and were educated on laws on human rights.
Mr Bonsu, who has returned from a two-week leave, said he was hopeful that the initiative would help change the face of the assembly and guarantee effective and efficient discharge of guard duties in the metropolis.
The guards are expected to take two days of rest and then swing into action thereafter to help maintain law and order.
The Commanding Officer of the Central Command of the Ghana Armed Forces, Brigadier General Joseph Adu Boapong, urged the guards to be role models to those who were yet to embark on the training programme.
‘You have to demonstrate the resilience and discipline you have acquired, and ensure that you do not go back to your old ways,” he told the guards.
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Constable Doris Nyako was adjudged the best drills student while Clement Opoku was declared the best in Physical Training, with Constable Amoako Mensah Fredrick emerging as the overall best student.
The CEO of the KMA initiated the military training exercise for the guards upon the realisation that some of them were not physically fit and lacked knowledge and understanding of the assembly bye-laws regulating their work, besides allegations of extortion and negligence of duty.