Security threat in Ghana, 7 banned

The National Security of Ghana has banned seven former commanders from all military and police installations and garrisons in the country. It further reminded the public of an existing ban on former president Rawlings on the same issue, a statement from the Security Coordinator, Sam Amu said.The seven commanders include a former General Officer Commanding, Lt Gen. Arnold Quainoo, a former chief of Defence Staff, Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah, Real Admiral Owusu Ansah, a former Chief of Naval Staff, C.K Dewornu, former Inspector General of Police, F.Y Asare, former Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, Bruce Konuah, former Defence Advisor to Pakistan, and W.K Aboah, former Commissioner of Police.The ban comes in the wake of a recent meeting held by them in the residence of the former president where security concerns in the country were purported to have been discussed.The Deputy Information Minister, Frank Agyakum, explained that the directive is as a result of the Armed Forces Security Council meeting which assessed the security situation in the country, according to an Accra based radio station, Joy Fm.The security council meet from time to time to assess the security situation and the directive may be as a result of an intelligence gathered, he said. Agyakum said actions or inactions by some of these former security personnel may have contributed to the directive.Commenting on the recent meeting held by the ex- president, he said maintaining security in the country was the responsibility of the military, police and national security and for others to meet in the name of national security was worrying.He stated the utterances by some of the former security capos after the said meeting were even worrying. “To ask service commanders to disobey unlawful command was to me scary,” he said.