By Issac Asare
The Ghana Bar association (GBA), has condemned in no uncertain terms the flogging of two young persons in Wa for their alleged involvement in sexual conduct and making it public via video.
Stating its position on the development, the GBA says punishment meted out to the two before onlookers is not only humiliating and inhumane but an action that contravenes Articles 12 and 15 clauses (2) of the 1992 constitution which guarantees the freedom and dignity of all persons devoid of any violation and degrading treatments.
In a statement jointly signed by the National President and Secretary of the GBA, it described the recent flogging of the two as an act of backwardness and called on the security agencies to investigate and apprehend persons behind the physical abuse for the law to take its course.
The GBA by this statement has instructed its Committee on Women and Minor Rights to monitor and offer the necessary legal assistance to the victims of the lawless act.
That said, the GBA is calling on ”Ghanaians to respect the human rights provision set in the constitution and desist from the brutal assault of persons identified in any act deemed contrary to the moral code of any community”.
