The Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has advised the government to enact the Emile Short Commission of Inquiry’s findings by dissolving the National Security Council Secretariat’s SWAT team.
The team’s conduct, according to CDD-Ghana, are not conducive to the country’s protection.
The call was made in response to the attack on Citi News’ Caleb Kudah and the Gestapo-style invasion of Citi FM/Citi TV premises in an attempt to apprehend another journalist, Zoe Abu-Baidoo Addo.
The conduct was criticized by CDD-Ghana as absurd and unprofessional.
In an interview with Citi News, Kojo Asante, the Director of Advocacy and Policy Engagement at the CDD-Ghana, stated that the country’s National Security apparatus needs to be thoroughly reviewed.
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Mr. Asante claims that the intelligence agency’s activities are in contrast with the country’s 1992 constitution.
“For me, on the back of the Ayawaso report, I think we need to come back to the conversation around the reform of National Security. Moreover, we just passed a new National Security Act, and we need to look at the behaviour, the culture and the rest. This idea of the operatives of National Security going here and there doing police [work] and all that is something that the State needs to look at very carefully.”
“I don’t believe it is what the constitution prescribes, but this is how tradition has evolved to be, and it must be closely examined.”
SOURCE: ATLFMONLINE
