Our Security Services Are Politicized – Security Analyst

Security Analyst and senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Coast (UCC), Dr Kingsley Adjei has insisted the country’s security agencies have been infiltrated with politics.

According to him, a political party upon assumption of power appoints party faithfuls to national positions including the security services.

Speaking to GhanaWeb, Mr Adjei said, “the security agencies which are supposed to be intervening in this have been politicized. Look at the situation where when one party loses from the IGP to the District Commander, everybody is changed. So the perception is that, all those in the leadership positions of the security agencies are sympathizers or supporters of the party in power.”

Reacting to Minister for Special Development Initiative, Mavis Hawa Koomson’s shooting incident, he stated that she is likely to go scot free because her government is in power.

“For instance if I did what Hawa Koomson did, or you did, you will be languishing in cells right now. But because she is in government, she goes with impunity, she is a minister, she is a parliamentarian, she belongs to the ruling party … so right now, if somebody slaps you from the ruling party and you take the person to the police, and the reason was because of an electoral banter or anything like that, the person will go scot free because a voice will come from the top to instruct the police to leave him,” he said.

Source: GhanaFeed.com