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A retired superintendent of the Ghana Police Service Mr. Batong Luri aka ‘Magani’ has revealed that the current crop of persons joining the service are not doing so because they are interested in serving their country but to amass wealth.

Mr. Batong Luri who until his retirement served in various capacities in the service at different locations including Takoradi, Kumasi, Nkawkwa, Ashiaman and Asante Mampong spanning 38 years, is worried about the get rich quick mentality of the younger ones in the service.

“Policing in the past was more of a service than the quest for money. Most of the young officers are keen on getting rich quick than working to improve the work.

Protocol enlistment is not helping the work’, he disclosed on Tumu-based Radford Fm.

According to him, he joined the police service in 1975 after a police Commander called one Abdulai saw him and said his height was right for the job. ‘I wrote through the post office and I was picked’ A product of Bawku Technical school, my police work took me from Takoradi Habour and later went on peacekeeping operations at Bosnia, Sudan and South Sudan where I gained a lot of experience”, he revealed .

On his return home after retirement, he is worried successive governments have failed to solve the perennial water crises in Tumu in the Sissal East District of the Upper West region.

He had worked as a revenue collector of the water sewage cooperation since the 1970s.

“Even those days the water was not flowing but I was expected to collect revenues where people complained like they are doing today and I still see some of the taps I used to see those days, nothing appears to have been changed “He lamented.

He urged the water board to work assiduously to pump water and follow up with the collection of revenue.