The Ghana Standard Authority (GSA) is calling on government pass a law to regulate the sale, purchase and ownership of acid.
The Authority lamented that the growing trend in which acid is used to disfigure individuals is worrying and must be nipped in the bud.
[contextly_sidebar id=”qalSBxjzx3VcnHeqprxi0PVin9bIH69R”]Their call comes on the back of the murder of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Upper East Regional Chairman, Adam Mahama through an acid attack.
A constituency chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Western Region has also been suspended over acid threats.
Media reports indicate that some aggrieved persons attack their offenders with acid, leading to severe damage or death of the victims.
Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Standard Authority, Kofi Amponsah Bediako told Citi News, if laws are passed and implemented, it will minimize the increasing number of acid attacks on people.
He remarked that the issue of acid attacks “is very worrying. It is actually becoming a common trend that once people have scores to settle with you, they use acid to disfigure and deform you.”
According to him, currently, there are no laws which specifically regulates the sale of acid.
“We need to make serious arrangements and indeed, very quick ones to ensure that acid is not sold by anybody, acid is not accessed by anybody at all but that if you buy it, you can easily be traced so that if you use it for the wrong reasons, you can be arrested and prosecuted.”
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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