Executive Director of the Bureau of Public Safety (BPS), Nana Yaw Akwada has criticized the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery, for the decision to deploy about 200 police personnel to serve as security guards to Members of Parliament (MPs) due to the killing of Mfantseman MP, Ekow Kwansah Hayford.
Nana Yaw Akwada added that the decision is not only emotive but one that lacks the backing of credible intelligence which must indicate whether the late lawmaker was killed because of his status.
In an interview with an Accra-based TV, Nana Yaw Akwada expressed that he was expecting the Minister to rather announce decisions that would guarantee the safety of the entire populace and not a select few.
“Our opposition to the Interior Minister’s decisions to provide MPs with personal police protection is not because we do not think that the lives of MPs matter but it is because we believe that the lives of the general population really do matter and the lives of the general public include that of MPs,’’ Nana Yaw Akwada stated.
“Nana Yaw Akwada continued that they can’t establish that the MP was killed because of his status as MP, and we cannot establish otherwise,” he said.
But Hon. Ekow Kwansah Hayford was killed during a robbery incident at Abeadze Dominase on the Mankessim-Abeadze road in the Central Region, at dawn on Friday, October 9. The MP is reported to have been shot when he was returning from a campaign trip.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Solomon Nartey
