The Northern Regional Police Commander COP Mr Timothy Yoosa Bonga has hinted the regional police will enforce the residents to wear their nose masks.
COP Yoosa Bonga made these statements when the Disinfection team from the waste management experts Zoomlion Ghana Limited stormed the regional Police command in the northern regional capital, Tamale to embark on the ongoing of disinfection exercise of Police facilities across the country.
“What I have been told is that and we have witnessed a number of disinfection in the region.
This is not the first time. We have been briefed on the importance of this disinfection. And I want to believe that indeed it will be one of the contributing factors that we have not registered any of our officers being infected with the covid 19.
Whether it is the case or not as a lane man because it has been done and we have experienced this”.
I want to believe that it gives us the confidence and hope that after the disinfection, we will have the confidence to do our work. “We have started enforcing the wearing of nose mask. We have arrested several people.
We only have not put them before the court. We have given them warning letters. We have warned them that the next term they are caught not wearing the mask, we shall put them before the court”.
Apart from arresting, we will also do a lot of sensitization. He disclosed that sensitization will be done on the roads, market places and at other vantage points to educate the people.
COP Yoosa Bonga added that even though President Akufo-Addo has spoken the regional police command will continue to educate the people in the region because you would realize that not everybody got the opportunity to have listened to the president.
It would be recalled that The Ghana Police Service and Zoomlion Ghana Limited launched disinfection exercise in 2020 at the National Police Training School, Tesano in Accra to ensure facilities of the police service which includes police training schools, barracks, police stations, offices, cells, markets among others are been disinfected.
Lawyer James Oppong-Boanuh, the Inspector General of Police(IGP) assured all the regional, districts, divisional heads that zoomlion Ghana Limited will be embarking on the exercise to ensure the global pandemic is defeated.
