A security consultant calls for restructuring of National Security
The security consultant alluded to a link between vigilantism, national security and illegal mining activities in the country, indicating that members of the supposedly disbanded groups had found themselves in law enforcement, among other illegal activities.
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A security consultant, Isaac Ayitey, has called for the dissolution of the National Security for restructuring to meet the purpose for which it was constituted.
He stated that the National Security office was set up to serve as an independent investigative office to help the police and other security agencies but this purpose has been downplayed for political purposes.
Mr Ayitey was speaking to a concern raised by Professor Emmanuel Kwesi Aning, Director of the Faculty of Academic Affairs at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, that vigilante groups have ventured into galamsey and law enforcement.
The security consultant alluded to a link between vigilantism, national security and illegal mining activities in the country, indicating that members of the supposedly disbanded groups had found themselves in law enforcement, among other illegal activities.
Speaking in an interview on Monday, May 17, Prof Aning stressed that “Vigilante groups are now franchising the skill set that they have into law enforcement, mining, cattle rustling, logging of rosewood and taxing agricultural goods particularly charcoal”.
According to him, Ghana is “seeing the beginnings of a hydra-headed monster that we need to elevate to the level of an existential threat to the state” and this assertion is supported by the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator’s account of the attack on him by seven operatives of the national security ministry.
DCOP Opare Addo had stated that four out of the seven men who attacked him in his office wielding an AK-47 rifle were known members of the alleged disbanded vigilante group – Delta Force.
There have also been reports that some illegal small-scale miners have hired the services of these vigilante groups to provide security at their concessions.
But to the security consultant, Isaac Ayitey, the involvement of political figures in matters of security in the country if not looked into with the needed attention could cause doom for the country.
He argued that the continuous unprofessionalism demonstrated by certain officials of the National Security was a result of the recruitment of unprofessional political boys into the service.
