Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, the Minister for the Interior, has confirmed reports about the withdrawal of the military team providing security for the Electoral Commission Chairperson, Jean Adukwei Mensa.
According to Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka, Jean Mensa’s military security detail has been withdrawn and replaced with a police team.
He asserted that the procedure is in line with the government’s decision not to use the military in providing security for all high-ranking officials in the country.
Mohammed-Mubarak Muntaka stated, “Let me say that is not true because the EC herself, I don’t know whether you’ve spoken to her. I personally spoke to her after the meeting, and we agreed that we were no longer going to use the military to provide civilian protection.
“So, the guards were withdrawn and replaced with the police, so if you ask her, she will tell you she has a bodyguard, she has policemen manning her gate both day and night, and therefore, it is never true if anybody says that her security has been withdrawn”.
The sector minister added, “What we generally do is to provide security around every neighbourhood. VVIPs like the chair of the Electoral Commission, she has a personal bodyguard (sic) just like the chief justice, the speaker of parliament and all others, and that’s what we are doing. And I’m sure you can call her and find out, and she can confirm that both her and her office is protected”.
“Why should the military be performing a civilian function? I mean, our country is not at war. Why should you draw in the military? The use of military force sometimes sends the wrong signal to the ordinary citizen.
“Police are trained with a civilian mind while the military is supposed to constantly provide security for our external or territorial integrity. So, when we draw them in, we are reducing the number of personnel that the military has to perform those difficult tasks that is usually performed by the military,” he continued.
He added, “That’s everywhere, I mean, you can find out from the former defense minister, you can find out from almost all the civilians that were using military protection. All of that has been withdrawn, all without exception. And this is a decision that we took as a new government, and that’s our policy.”
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The military security detail assigned to Jean Mensah has been withdrawn. pic.twitter.com/jEf7SWGVk9
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