[ 2021-02-10 ]

Stop making soldiers body guards of civilians – Minority

The Minority is demanding that the practice where
military personnel are assigned to civilians as
their body guards should stop. According to the
caucus, that practice demoralizes the men and
women of the Ghana Armed Forces.

Addressing the press in Parliament yesterday,
Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, said the
constitutional mandate of the Armed Forces is to
protect the territorial integrity of the country
and not to be carrying bags of public officials.

“We are demanding that President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the Commander-In-Chief of the
Ghana Armed Forces, take immediate and necessary
steps to demilatarise Ghana.

“The Ghana Police Service must be allowed to
play its proper and constitutional role of
maintaining law and order and, where necessary,
collaborate with the Ghana Armed Forces. “We
find it very despicable that men and women in
uniform, particularly in the Ghana Armed Forces,
will now be reduced to holding bags of public
officials. That is not the Ghana Armed Forces we
know.

“We want him to restore the dignity, the honour
and the respect of the Ghana Armed Forces so that
they only intervene in matters of maintaining law
and order,” the Minority Leader said. His
concerns come on the back of pictures circulating
on social media showing one of the lawyers of the
President’s legalteam in the ongoing election
petiton, Frank Davies, being guarded by a soldier.
The pictures also show the Chairperson of the
Electoral Commission being guarded by four
gun-wielding military personnel.

The Tamale South MP said though they were
committed to the safety of every Ghanaian, the
military must not be undermined and abused.

Source - Ghanaian Times

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