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Nana Yaw Akwada, the Executive Director of the Bureau of Public Safety thinks that calls for Members of Parliament (MPs) to be provided police security are unfounded.
This follows the shooting of the Member of Parliament for the Mfantseman constituency, Ekow Quansah Hayford making MPs ask for state-sponsored security.
Mr. Hayford was shot on the Abeadze Dominase– Abeadze Duadzi– Mankessim road in the Central Region by some unidentified attackers believed to be armed robbers.
The Speaker of Parliament summoned the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery to update the House on measures to improve security throughout the electioneering period. The Interior Minister is expected to appear in the House on Tuesday, October 13, 2020.
Mr. Akwada said such calls are flawed.
“If we would want to accept that a group of people can literally block a route and rob people and kill people and our only excuse is that the police doesn’t have logistics to protect us, then, wherein lies our safety? Wherein our governance, wherein lies the security of the democracy that we seek to enjoy today? And the danger is even escalated when we begin to talk about police protection for MPs. That is the most flawed argument, the most flawed proposition I can hear from anyone in the security space. Then what about us, the ordinary Ghanaian? That is the basic question.” he said.
“We are going to sit as a civil society organization and watch all the drivers in the political space checkout of the system. It should never happen for security. As I speak now, all the key actors in this country have all checked out of the system. They don’t buy fuel, but we buy so when we are complaining that things are tough, they don’t know. They don’t pay electricity bills and everything.” he added.
Mr. Akwada made these remarks when he showed up on Citi TV’s Breakfast Daily Program on Monday, October 12, 2020.
Source: Ghana Waves