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Security Expert Prof Kwesi Aning has called for the resignation of Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson as Special Development Initiatives Minister who is also the Member of Parliament for Awutu-Senya East Constituency in the Central Region.

According to him, the Member of Parliament cannot be trusted with the ministerial position she is occupying.

Prof Kwesi Aning made this call to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo after the Special Development Initiatives Minister admitted to have fired some gunshots at a voter registration centre her constituency.

“It is my hope that the President will ask Hawa Koomson to step aside or probably dismisses her” the security expert called.

Madam Hawa Koomson who is also the Member of Parliament for Awutu-Senya East said she took the firearm – which she refused to identify – to the registration centre to protect herself.

But speaking to Evans Mensah, the security expert, reacting on JoyNews PM Express insisted that the action the Minister put up should not be tolerated as it is premeditated, putting the lives of the constituents at risk.

The Director of Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre however expressed worried about the easy availability of guns in the country.

This situation, he believes has influenced people’s decision to resort to violence at the least provocation.

Earlier Monday, officials of the Electoral Commission closed down the Step to Christ registration centre in the Awutu Senya East constituency after gun-wielding men stormed the premises. Eyewitnesses say, the men numbering at least 15 arrived at the centre around 8a.m and tried to sack some prospective voters.

Although Hawa Koomson admitted to the act, she denied allegations that the men she visited the centre with were armed.

Prof. Kwesi Aning also said “One would have thought a substantive Minister in a government that seeks to bring the issue of vigilantism to book; having spent substantial government and donor funds to develop a code of conduct, roadmap and for a Minister to behave like any other vigilante raises very disturbing concerns.”

The Director of Academic Affairs and Research at Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) believed the behaviour the minister is an affront to the country democracy.

“Hawa Koomson has done her party, constituents, and certainly the good people of Ghana a great disservice.” Prof. Aning.

He however called on the Central Region Police Command to act with speed in investigating the violence that occurred in the Awutu-Senya East.