It has emerged that ‘boys’ of National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Ningo-Prampram, Samuel Nartey George dressed like members of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Unit of the National Security on the day of the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency by-election shootings.
Director of Operations of the National Security, Colonel Michael Kwadwo Opoku made this known on Wednesday, February 20.
The Director is appearing before the Justice Emile Short’s Commission today, February 20, to give testimonies into the circumstances leading to the shooting incident on January 31, 2019, during the by-election.
He said on that day both the SWAT Team members and persons following Sam George were in both brown and black tops.
Sam George was slapped twice in the face during the violence that erupted during the by-election on January 31, 2019.
The by-election was won by NPP’s candidate, Lydia Seyram Alhassan.
He reiterated that the SWAT team had 60 members on that day and they were on a confidence-building mission in the constituency when they had intelligence that there weapons in the residence of the NDC candidate.
Source: Daily Guide
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COMING NEW, WHERE IS JOHN MAHAMA, HE SHOULD GO AND TELL THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITIES OR DIPLOMATS THAT HIS PARTY MEMBERS HAVE KILLED OR ARE KILLING GHANAIANS, GOD HAS DISGRACED MAHAMA FOR EVER, BY GHANA
KK your f000*00lishness is what bus hurting your ndc party whereby you are killing yourselves! did NPP ask you to kill yourselves? I wish the Doctors at Okomfo Anokye will leave that guy in critical condition to die so ndc learn from what they paid for, idi*ots who think that Ghana belong to them so it is their right to unleash violence on Ghanaians ! the commander who is talking is an army officer and he knows what he is talking about ! a civilian like Sam George behaving like a soldier! tell Sam George to go and dispute it!mp nkwase*asem ne Nkwa*sea akeka no!
Unfortunately,NPP is repeating the same diabolic style of politics NDC used and lost.Oooooo Ama Ghana paa nie.hmmmmmmmmm
Did the police and our National Security followed J. J., Kuffour, Mills and Mahamah when they were in power? Be fair in your analyses else you will miss the boat. What is going on happened in the past regimes so you can't single out one regime for the blame. We need a paradigm shift to restructure our security force and shield them constitutionally from our greedy opportunistic criminal politicians period. With the same platform the police is operating, will anything change if you sack the entire police force and the National Security Agents and bring in fresh recruits? The value would be the same. We need to be circumspect in our analysis and criticism instead of being emotional and passionate about our political violent political parties and favourate politicians. Ghanaians are suffering from "SELECTIVE MEMORY AMNESIA SYNDROME"; when it favours you, see no evil and your party can never do wrong but, when your people are the victims then you raise hell and complain. Power is not forever and because of that no party would have monopoly over violence.
Our police can be professional if only the politicians could leave them alone to do their job. The foundations given to them to work from are very weak and because of that they're at the mercy of politicians regarding political violence. A president in a minute can send the IGP packing with PROCEED ON LEAVE ORDER. The IGP can order the arrest of these political criminal violent hooligans but you and me know what happens; an ORDER FROM THE ABOVE command always set these criminal political violent hooligans free in a minute because the IGP has to comply. It's easy to blame the police knowing well, they don't have a constitution protection to guard them against the whims of these greedy wicked politicians. We need to protect the IGP with a constitutional shield similar to what the Chief Justice is enjoying so the president can't fire him at will. Can the president just send the CJ packing with PROCEED ON LEAVE statement? It takes a constitutional process to send the CJ packing. A constitutional protection would embolden the IGP to crack down on these political violent criminal hooligans without fear or favour. The National Security Agency can be freed from infected criminal political hooligans from the winning party also by placing the agency and their leadership under the police force and their leadership accountable to the STRONG AND PROTECTED IGP. The rank and file National Security Agents should come from the strengthened police force; only the best tested police officer should be sent to the agency. You can blame the police all you want but, if the structures and foundations provided to them to do their job efficiently and effectively is not strengthen and made independent, the value will be the same regardless of who becomes the IGP. Our greedy politicians know this weak structures and foundations exist but, they prefer it like that so they can take advantage and manipulate the weak structures to their advantage for their political gains and fortunes. Why should Ghana government hire criminal political violent hooligans as National Security Agents from a ruling party, pay them with the taxpayers money only for them to be loyal to a private political party in power? It happened under J. J. Rawlings, Kuffour, Mills, Mahamah and now Nana Addoh. We can't allow a political party's criminal violent hooligans to run our National Security Agency period. Blaming the police is neither hear nor there. We need a new approach, a paradigm shift to give a constitution independence and shield to our police force and the IGP to do their job without becoming puppets of the ruling party and our criminal greedy politicians.
The Police Service has thrown professionalism to the doggs and are following NPP like ***barred word***. No shame, no ethics. no love for country, just corruption.
Oh Daily Guide!!! Are you listening to yourselves? Do not tell me you are reporting those good for nothing watchmen calling themselves security men...... The story you even publish does it add up? Peacefmonline is another...........hope this story makes cense to you!!
A whole national security men are giving statement with full contradiction and lies. Ghana have these us national security. More problems in future.
This is the very first time this label has come up. They are now constructing their own story but soon, they would be exposed.
It's really difficult to construct lies. Just see all the big security officers are messing up with their future. Primary schools chaps (their grannies) are laughing at them. If they had truth the commission's sitting would have over by now