It was around 3:00 am, 12th April, 2013(Mothers
day) when I was raised from my sleep to obey nature’s call. As I came
back to the room and sat on my bed to say a word of prayer, I overheard some
whisperings outside my un-curtained window.
I tried to peep who were those at that ungodly hour, as I
looked, I saw two soldiers (uniformed but not armed) who were trying to
communicate to each other on a very low tone. I stood there trying to make a
view of their faces but they had their caps on. However, intermittently they
took it off and wear it again.
Eventhough I heard a few statements like, “you are afraid
lets go” and “as for me I am going oo”, I could tell from their body language
that, one was influencing the other to join him in an anticipated action.
Around and behind our house, were women selling their bodies
for money. It suddenly came to mind that, these soldiers were on a mission to
satisfy their libidos.
Unfortunately, as I was peeping, my un-curtained window lead
me astray and these military men saw that, I was watching them silently all
awhile. We kept eye ball to eye ball for about 8 seconds and I saluted them of
which they responded. Immediately, I redrew from my post and went back to bed.
In some few minutes, I heard grievous feminine shouts amidst
chanting of curses and deep insults echoing from where these prostitutes
reside. I woke up from my bed to see what was happening.
As I peeped through my un-curtained window, I saw these two
military men amidst about four civilians coming out with some bold steps from
where ‘those’ women reside. There were two prostitutes who were furiously
shouting and chanting curses on these military men and when they were asked by
a friend to explain, one said, “one of the soldiers had come to enjoy himself
and had paid 5 Gh cedis(which was below the standard amount of 20 Gh cedis) and
when they questioned him, he refused to add up and tried to cause mayhem by
assaulting the woman.
Some male friends of the prostitutes tried protecting their
women and also to deal with the military men. This resulted that, the military
men responded by spraying their pepper’s spray into the eyes of some of the
male friends of the prostitutes.
It resulted in a havoc which caused many civilians within
our area to awoke and come up to witness the scene.
What should make a man of the law trained to protect the
civilian behave in this awkward way?
Thank you.
