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Security for Ministers and MP’S not the best- KB Asante
Mr. K.B Asante has revealed the state should look into providing extra security for the lawmakers in Ghana
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According to him, the current security arrangement for ministers of state, MPs and other high-ranking state officials should be looked into.
In his view, the state should take a leaf from last year’s murder of Joseph Boakye Danquah-Adu, then Member of Parliament for Abuakwa North, and provide police protection for Ghana’s lawmakers MPs.
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He noted that, “It has been suggested they should have one policeman but will that be sufficient? We have had for years certain officials having police escorts but they are mainly ceremonial in that if there is a crisis, there is no way of getting support or they doing something positive.”
"My own experience is that the police escorts do not really provide security. When I was a minister, I had police escorts. Even in the house I had police, and yet my electric bulbs were stolen. You need proper security not only for parliamentarians but for our ministers and key personalities who may be attacked when they make certain decisions or they take certain lines of actions, we need to protect such people but that protection should not turn to be ad hoc, it should be properly organised" he explained.
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