Security analyst, Adam Bonaa, has called for the dismissal of the national security boss as the secessionist groups continue to wreak havoc on lives and properties in the Volta Region.
Speaking in an interview, Adam Bonaa stated that president should have engaged directly with security agencies who are investigating issues on these attacks.
“The national security boss as we speak should have been fired, and I have repeated it, he’s still there and if you continue to run a very flat security architecture like we are doing, Ghana is at war with these people and you still have the national security minister there, who these people know that he’s so docile, probably doesn’t know his work … change him. Bring in someone who could have the full backing of the security sector; we haven’t done that”.
According to the security analyst, the president, the AG, the national security boss and the honorable speaker of parliament have failed the country in matters relating to the ongoing unrest in the Volta Region.
“If you take the right honorable speaker of Parliament, why has he not called an emergency session of parliament? In a serious country the honorable speaker of parliament would have called for an emergency parliament and invited the Member of Parliament in this area to come and give this country a full briefing in the open”.
Commenting on the scanty information being released by security agencies on the matter, Adam Bonaa believes that “in a more serious country, the president of the republic would have addressed the nation”.
“I have said repeatedly that it looks like the President is not being advised, he’s not being given the full details of what is going on. If for nothing at all, for two, three hours, these guys who [are] purporting to lay a claim to part of our country Ghana, trying to break away, are taking over for three hours and in their own mind, that part of the country was no longer part of Ghana.
“If I were the president of the republic, I would have addressed the nation to assure the security agencies that they have my full backing. But as we speak, how many days on, we haven’t heard the president speak, so no wonder you would not hear the police speak directly to the issue… it’s just ministers, spokespersons who we did not elect but are actually speaking to the issue”.
Following the recent attack by some secessionist groups on STC drivers and the burning of a bus, Adam Bonaa further probed the veracity of the information Ministers claim of the situation being handled.
“Who would have thought that after honorable Kojo Oppong Nkrumah coming to tell us that the situation was under control; some of us said most of the things they issued out there were pure lies. Because if you had intelligence beforehand, you could have stopped them… and which of the groups? How much intelligence have we picked and how much of that intelligence have we processed? Why are we beginning to see attacks in quick succession? It looks like we are in for a bumpy ride”.
