Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemanah Braimah has opined that the National Security cannot sack a soldier or Police officers who have been sent on secondment.
This was in response to the decision by the National Security to remove Lt. Col. Agyeman and some three other Police officers and referred them to their respective institutions for disciplinary action.
Mr. Kan-Dapaah, the Minister of National Security in the statement said: “The Committee [that investigated the case] established that the conduct of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Agyeman (Director of Operations) and some police officers at the Ministry on the said day was inappropriate and contravened the Ministry’s standard operating procedures.”
“The secondment of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Agyeman (Director of Operations) at the Ministry has been reversed. The officer is to report to the Chief of Defence for further investigations and appropriate action” he added in the statement.
“The secondment of Lieutenant Colonel Frank Agyeman (Director of Operations) at the Ministry has been reversed. The officer is to report to the Chief of Defence Staff for further investigations and appropriate action” the Ministry said in a statement.
“The three (3) police officers involved have been withdrawn and are to report to the Ghana Police Service for investigation and disciplinary action,” a statement from the Ministry of National Security and signed by the sector minister, Albert Kan-Dapaah stated.
But reacting Mr. Braimah said the National Security Ministry has handed over the baton to the Ghana Armed Forces and the Ghana Police Service.
He wrote: ”Sending officers on secondment back to their mother organisations is no punishment. Of course, National Security cannot sack a soldier or police officer on secondment. Now, we look forward to what the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) and Ghana Police Service (GPS) will do to their officers who have been ‘deported’ for misconduct.
Will the two institutions prove that they don’t tolerate or condone misconduct by their officers on secondment? Or they will prove that once an officer is on secondment they are allowed to do anything and face no consequence when they are ‘deported’ by the agencies they were seconded to. The GAF and GPS have an opportunity to prove to Ghanaians how they uphold their values. National security has passed the baton to them. We wait to see!”
Meanwhile, he has called for the prosecution of the officers since the National Security Ministry has confirmed the alleged assault.
”National Security says their officers acted inappropriately, confirming the journalist’s story of abuse. Let’s sue them!”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com
