Mr. Ningo Prampram According to Member of Parliament Samuel Nartey George, Ghana’s army is afraid to go to Bawku to defend highly valued personalities.
On the Big Issue on a TV station on Wednesday, April 5, he stated that the military was unable to provide protection to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Interior, which chose to go to Bawku to determine the true situation on the ground.
He claimed that the committee canceled their journey halfway to Bawku after receiving intelligence that it was not safe for them to travel there.
“Our army is afraid of going into Bawku to protect the parliamentary committee on defense and interior yet the military could go to Ashaiman to brutalize citizens. If you are strong, the boys in Bawku are misbehaving, go there and deal with those behind it,” Sam George said.
He also stated that there was an urgent need to examine how some Bawku residents obtained the sophisticated weapons on them.
According to him, the type of weapons in the hands of the residents calls for a thorough inquiry.
“If you talk to people on the ground of Bawku, the caliber of weaponry on the grounds in Bawku, it is a war. How are they getting the weapons? How are they getting the ammunition? Who is resourcing that conflict in Bawku? These are the fundamental questions we must ask ourselves.
“How big is Bawku? What is the population of Bawku? Can’t our intelligence wing, be it National Security or NIB and all the amorphous institutions we have who terrorize citizens for no reason, they are telling us that they can’t identify, using intelligence, who the kingpins are behind this thing to pick them up?
“So now our military cannot step into Bawku and we say we have an army and our Commander in Chief doesn’t see that there is a problem here,” he said.