Member of Parliament for Odododiodoo constituency, Edwin Nii Lantey Vanderpuye has called for a change of attitude within the security service in order to safeguard it from political control.
According to him, most of the officers who he claimed take instructions from politicians, exhibit a high level of indiscipline within the service.
Speaking in an interview on Accra Based-Television, Mr Lantey Vanderpuye hinted that there has been a total breakdown of law and order, command, and operations within the security services which must be ended directly.
“There is a total breakdown of discipline within the security services because when a Police junior officer was brutalizing me as a sitting Member of Parliament and our officer was standing and the officer cannot talk since that junior officer was taking instructions from a political person who has control over the Police service,” he said.
This came to light when the Minority presented a petition to the Electoral Commission (EC) against the results of the elections, on Tuesday, December 22.
He, however, stressed that he had experienced it when a whole officer of the Ghana Police service was issuing instructions and an ordinary rank was countering the instruction of the officers.
“We think it is Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, no. It is the moral fibre of this country that is being adulterated and mutilated. It is something we must all rise up to,” he added.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Abba Kwegyirba Aggrey
