The Crusading Guide

Demilitarise the society?BY declaring a ?gun amnesty? ? Wereko-Brobby Dr Charles Wereko-Brobby, Presidential candidate of the United Ghana Movement for the year 2000 elections, is reported by the Crusading Guide to have called for the demilitarisation of the Ghanaian society.

He is said to have made the call in the light of the insecure national climate generated by the proliferation of guns in the system and their subsequent abuse, through armed robbery and other unlawful uses.

The paper says Dr Wereko-Brobby, who was contributing to a "Groove FM" programme on arms proliferation in Ghana and the spate of armed robbery, noted that even though there is a law in Ghana that control the possession of arms, its implementation leaves much to be desired.

The Crusading Guide says Dr Wereko-Brobby suggested that the Inspector-General of Police and the Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces put together a programme "in which we are asking everybody in Ghana ? those with licences and those without, over a certain period to surrender their arms to the police and the military".