The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) is questioning the government’s long silence on the arrest of the three South African ex-Police officers by the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI).
The NPP says almost three days after the arrest, government is still quiet on the matter.
Addressing a news conference in Accra, Acting General Secretary of the NPP, John Boadu said government must speak on the matter.
[contextly_sidebar id=”ibTxaFanWa1Y2dfJVEUBlqdSvppqdBnl”]“As we speak now I don’t know whether there’s been a formal statement by government all that we’ve seen is a reportage by GBC quoting government communication bureau and they later came to apologise. This is not the first time, we’ve seen some before where one Asem Dake was arrested by the Police and the National Security decided to break the news to government functionaries and as per our information they were coaching the man and the target obviously is Nana Akufo-Addo.”
He indicated that “we can’t run a country with a bias security system.”
He described the current brouhaha over the South African ex-officers “is just a storm in the tea cup.”
John Boadu noted that because the party knew it did not have the mandate to bring the security men adding that “that is why we didn’t bring them in directly, we sort the services of a private security; they know the details of what to do.”
“There are a lot of private securities that have instructors that some of them are locals some of them foreigners. But our main priority is the security of our people not only high profile.”
He explained that the reason the party sought the services of the security men is to help protect their party members.
“There is no way we should allow people who support and believe in our course suffer potential security danger…and we will continue to protect ourselves and make sure that the people of this country’s mandate is protected and we must be alive to protect those mandate for us,” he added.
BNI arrest
Three South African ex-Police officers are currently in the grips of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for engaging in suspicious acts that Ghanaian security officials consider a threat to national security.
Meanwhile, it emerged that the three ex-officers were in the country to train the security detail of the opposition NPP.
The NPP says it took the decision to strengthen security around its leaders due to their growing popularity and their inability to control the crowd around the two.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana