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Parliamentary Candidate for Ningo Prampram Constituency, Samuel Nartey George, is of the opinion that the Ghana army is scared to travel to Bawku to guard important individuals.
He claimed that the Military was unable to provide protection to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Defence and Interior, which made the decision to travel to Bawku to determine for themselves what the actual situation on the ground was, on the Big Issue on TV3 on Wednesday, April 5.
The committee, he said, rescinded their trip halfway to Bawku because they picked intelligence that it wasn’t safe for them to get there.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 added that it was vital to look into how some Bawku people obtained the advanced weaponry they were carrying.
According to him, there is cause for concern given the types of weapons the locals are carrying.
“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.
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