National Democratic Congress Communications team member, Roger Wills, has stressed the need for people to be held accountable when their exercise of constitutional freedoms infringes on the rights of others.
Speaking to Isaac Addae on The Verdict on Starr FM, Roger Wills said while the Constitution guarantees individuals certain freedoms and liberties, those freedoms have limits.
He argued that once a person crosses those limits and infringes on the rights of another person, the law must be allowed to take its course.
“The level or the limits the Constitution has given you, your freedom or the liberty. Then we are trespassing. We are going into another person’s or you are infringing on someone’s rights.”
According to him, accountability is necessary whenever an individual’s rights are infringed upon, insisting that the law must be enforced in such circumstances.
He also praised law enforcement agencies and the courts for holding people accountable, describing the enforcement of the law as an important check on individual conduct.
“We should be applauding the law enforcement agencies. We should be applauding the courts.”
Roger Wills cited the case involving Abronye as an example, arguing that the action taken against him after he spoke against the court appears to have served as a check on his subsequent conduct.
“You see when Abronye started and spoke against the court and was held contempt. Have you heard him speaking again like that? No!”
He maintained that laws are meant to check people and ensure that individuals are held responsible when they cross established boundaries.
“Laws are meant to check people.”
Roger Wills further acknowledged the cost associated with imprisonment, noting that keeping people in prison places a financial burden on taxpayers.
“No one will be happy putting a lot of people in prison. After all, they are wasting taxpayers’ money.”
He nevertheless maintained that the law must be allowed to operate where individuals go beyond the limits of their constitutional freedoms and infringe on the rights of others.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh/Pamela Quayson
