The Member of Parliament for Ejisu, Kwabena Boateng, has raised concerns about the operational approach of Ghana’s national security apparatus, cautioning against the increasing visibility and overt display of force by personnel.
He raised the concerns while discussing the recent assault on JoyNews‘s Carlos Carlony and his interviewee on the Newsfile on Saturday, August 2. Carlos was covering a demolition exercise by the National Security operatives and Military officers.
According to the lawmaker, the current posture of some national security operatives blurs the line between intelligence and enforcement.
Mr Boateng lamented what he described as a deviation from the traditional and professional role of national security operatives, arguing that their mandate should centre more on intelligence gathering and behind-the-scenes work.
“The worrying, emerging issues about National Security, when you read the national security law, you do not see a group of weaposnised people, especially in modern times, when national security is about human security, it is about research, it is about helping the government with intel, it is not about people holding guns.”
He also claimed that, based on his personal experience with some operatives of the national security agency, some do not have the requisite academic capacity.
“I happened to be at a police station where an officer of national security was asked to write his name, and it became a problem, he was holding a gun… you could see that he had no form of education,” he alleged.
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