ADISADEL COLLEGE ASSAULT : BLAME GES AND SCHOOL MANAGEMENT BOARD FOR LACK OF SECURITY POLICY DOCUMENT IN OUR VARIOUS INSTITUTIONS TO SAFEGUARD STUDENTS ~ SECURITY POLICY EXPERT

Genuinely, the barbaric act of assault that had occurred in Adisadel College has truly exposed many impunity happening in the various level of our institutions.

This act, captured in the vedio footage, that has gone viral is beyond the word “bullying” this is a clear act of “terrorism”. For a student at a second cycle education level to consciously and deliberately clip the neck of his fellow student firmly to a point that his legs were hanging and was having difficulty in breathing, and further drag him closely towards a metallic bed and wickedly hold the head and hit his face against the metallic bed leaving one side of his face swallowing.

This is a clear act of terrorism and must be blame on the head of Ghana Education Services and the Adisadel College Management Board for failing to put in place, a security policy protocols or measures to deter, detect, deny, delay and prevent such unfortunate act by students.

So many empirical evidences has proven, that the world is in the state of terrorism act and our various universities, colleges, schools and other institutions are not exempted from areas of which this act can occur, this imperatively call for the need to consider students safety and security as referent objects of discussion to ensure secure environment in their pursuit of knowledge.

It is very unfortunate, that our institutions are use to the old mechanism of protecting students and its properties, which is absolutely wrong, considering the new unfolding threat of human behaviour. For this reason, there is the need for our institutions to adopt to the modern strategies of preventing some of this horrible occurrences by having a Security Policy Document that spell out all the necessary strategies in managing threats or risks identified, ensuring effective command and control of students, ensuring proper and efficient personnel security training for both teaching staff, non teaching staff, including students, detailing all disciplinary actions and their equivalent awkward behaviour by students, adopt the morden way of gathering intelligence from, various halls, hostels, domentries and many other areas in the institutions for further security decision at the management level with specific duties given to individual staff to ensure proper and effective coordination to achieve high level of safety and security of students on campuses.

Inasmuch as I condemn the act, I deem it important to clearly state, that this behaviour by the student is criminal and must not just be handled at the school Management level, but call for investigation by the criminal investigative department of Ghana police to establish the root cause of the act and sanction the perpetrator with the appropriate disciplinary action has stipulated by the law to serve as deterrence to many other students in the future.