Hawa Koomson must resign for shooting incident at Registration Centre – Kwesi Aning
Prof. Aning believes the actions of Hawa Koomson is counterproductive to the fight against political militia
Jonas Danquah 
Security analyst Professor Kwesi Aning has called for the resignation of Special Development Initiatives, Mavis Hawa Koomson, for shooting at a registration centre in Kasoa.
The cabinet minister and Member of Parliament for the Awutu Senya East Constituency, Madam Koomson admitted to firing a gun at the Step to Christ voters’ registration centre in her constituency.
Hawa Koomson said she acted out of ‘self-defence’, in the absence of her police escort.
However, the security expert said, regardless of Hawa Koomson’s reasons for firing the warning shots, she must be removed from President Akufo-Addo’s government for being “reckless”.
“It is my hope that his Excellency the President will ask Ms Hawa Koomson to step aside by tomorrow afternoon or probably dismiss her,” Professor Anning said in an interview on Joy News, which was monitored by theghanareport.com. “Hawa Koomson has done her party, constituents, and certainly the good people of Ghana a great disservice.”
Prof. Aning believes the actions of the cabinet minister is counterproductive to the fight against political militia which has been outlawed in the country.
“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, I think raises very disturbing concerns,” Professor Aning noted.
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He said the minister put the lives of the crowd at the registration center at risk and her posture did not befit a ministerial role.
Meanwhile, the EC has also condemned the minister’s action, describing it as “a breach of the Vigilante and Related Offenses Act, 2019 Act 999. The Act seeks to disband violent activities of Political Parties and makes political vigilantism an offence punishable by a prison term.”
