A security analyst has mounted a spirited opposition to the existence and relevance of the Ministry of National Security at the Presidency.
Adam Bona therefore wants the office occupied by Bryan Acheampong scrapped.
His comments follow the report of the Emile Short Commission that investigated the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence, which recommended to the president to sanction the minister of state.
He argued on TV3’s News@10 Friday that the role of the minister has been conflicting with that of the substantive minister for National Security, accusing the former of arrogating extra powers to himself.
“In one way or the other he has been usurping the appointment of the substantive National Security Minister,” Adam Bona observed.
“The question I keep asking myself, do we need a National Security Minister at the Office of the President? We don’t really need it. What role is he performing, is he in-charge of presidential security or he is in-charge of the bigger national security?” he queried.
“Instead of having too many security ministers performing functions that have not been assigned to them”, he suggested, Bryan Acheampong could probably be reassigned to the National Security Ministry as a deputy minister.
Bryan Acheampong who is also the Member of Parliament for Abetifi had admitted knowledge of the operations of armed masked men that brutalised citizens on January 31.
The three-member presidential commission said in a leaked report that Mr. Acheampong should take “ultimate responsibility” for the operation which resulted in the shooting of at least six people.
“The Commission recommends that Mr. Bryan Acheampong be reprimanded for his ultimate responsibility as Minister in authorising an operation of that character and on a day of an election in a built up area.”
But Adam Bona was of the view that the Commission should have been explicit and demanded that Bryan Acheampong is made to step aside.
Meanwhile the Commission has recommended the removal of the commander of the police SWAT team at the National Security Council Secretariat, DSP Samuel Kojo Azugu who led the operations on that day.
Siding with the commission, the security analyst reechoed his earlier position that “DSP Azugu is an apology of a police officer” and prayed that he should be sanctioned for his role in the brutality.
Also, a national security operative, Mr. Ernest Akomea alias ‘Double’ is to be prosecuted, according to the commission’s recommendations to the president.
During his testimony before the commission, ‘Double’ confessed using an unauthorized weapon in the SWAT team’s operation at the residence of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the by-election.
Source: 3news
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Bryan Acheampong will remain at post no matter what these doom sayers say or do.
IF GHANA WANTS TO THANK ANYBODY FOR PEACE THEN IT IS TO SUCH PEOPLE LIKE BRYAN ACHEAMPONG, COL OPOKU AND CO. HIS BOOT FOR NDC CHALE-WATE HAS COMPEL ALL IN GHANA TO LOOK AT VIGILANTISM. WITHOUT HIS PROACTIVE ACTION AND REAL EXHIBITION OF STRENGTH NDC WOULD NEVER HAVE AGREED TO ADMIT THE EVIL OF VIGILANTISM, DUE TO THE PRIOR COMMENTS OF ASIEDU MOSQUITO AND CO IN NDC. TALKATIVES LIKE ASOMASI BONA DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. IF FOR ANYTHING BRYANT SHOULD BE THANKED AND PROMOTED. GHANA IS NOW PEACEFUL FOR ALL LIKE MR. BONA TO SPEAK FREELY BECAUSE OF THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT WORK OF BRYANT ACHEAMPONG AND OTHERS.
Why should that be scrapped? go back home and help your people like Ghana has done to you and stop giving instructions and making to much noise everyday in the news down south! you are too nuisance and rather making yourselves unpopular down here because you are always on the wrong side of the news ! Silence is Golden and Good name is better than riches! Tamale SHS is crying for portable water and you are here asking for a security ministry to be scrapped when Ghanaians need security seriously!instead of talking loudly here to irritate Ghanaians I think you would have got good names if we rather hear in the news about you guys supplying water where there is no water ,building police posts like Dr Osei Kwame did to his home town,taking children learning under trees into modern classrooms, building toilet facilities for villages who do not have and giving useful facilities to villages who need them like clinics etc but not talking too much on radio and TV for nothing! after the nation helping you, you come back to demand from the nation to do basic things others are giving to their communities. Mr Bright Acheampong has nothing to lose because his home community have benefited from him before even he became an mp and minister! You people talk too much with little to show !Stop the talking and compete with development!