The Ashanti Regional Minister, Hon. Simon-Osei Mensah says his official duty towards Ghanaians does not include a personal insurance of individuals in their homes.

The Minister was responding to questions in the wake of the recent murder of a nurse in the Ashanti Region, Bosomtwe District to be precise over the death of Ms Ruth Ama Eshun, was found lifeless at Ayuom near Sewua in the Bosomtwe District.

“It is not our duty to ensure security in the individual homes of the people…if a husband and a wife fights at home and something happens, it is not our duty to go into that?” he said on Accra based Citi FM in an interview.

“I sit on top of security with defined functions, not limitless functions…When did it become the duty of the Regional Security Council to ensure individual security?”

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The GRNMA also appealed to the Ghana Police Service “to investigate this matter with the urgency it deserves and bring the perpetrators to book.”

According to the Regional Minister, he “cannot go and ensure security in individual homes, that is the job of the police.”