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Richmond Keelson, Spokesperson for Progressive People's Party founder, Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom, says Ghanaians have a legitimate reason to be apprehensive about the inclusion of the Elite Forces during the 55th Independence Day Parade in Accra on Tuesday, 6th March. According to him, with what the country has been through under military rule, the citizenry will always look over their shoulders with some form of apprehension when it has to do with especially the National Democratic Congress (NDC), a party which traces its antecedent from the erstwhile Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) and the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC), where the commando unit was very paramount in their administration. Contributing to discussions on CitiFM�s Big Issues on the brouhaha that occasioned the presence of the Special Forces, a unit separate from the regular officers of the traditional Army, Navy and Air Force of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF), Richmond Keelson alluded to newspaper reports alleging that the NDC was training some elite commandos saying their presence at the anniversary seemed to solidify those reports. To him, the display by the Special Force was strange adding that they looked like a "bunch of caricatures". �The posture of the special force was not normal...for a discipline unit, the way they even marched you ask yourself, excuse my language, these are a bunch of caricatures for Christ sake. They were not doing the right thing as military men and so it gives room for many interpretations. This may not necessarily be the case but you see for the benefit of hand sight and the way we�ve been treated politically from the PNDC era, most especially when there is another NDC administration in power, people are very much apprehensive,� he noted.