GHANA- The Director of Faculty of Academic Affairs and Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Professor Kwesi Anning, has said that Mavis Hawa Koomson is not deserving of her position as Special Development Initiatives Minister and therefore must resign.
His comments comes on the back of the Minister’s admission tofiring gunshots at a voter registration centre in Awutu-Senya East Constituency in the Central Region.
“It is my hope that the President will ask Hawa Koomson to step aside or probably dismiss her” the Security expert said.
The Minister who also doubles as the Member of Parliament for Awutu-Senya East said she took the firearm , which she hasrefused to identify – to the registration centre to protect herself.
Speaking to Evans Mensah on Joy Prime’s PM Express, Prof Aning said her actions were “unacceptable, premeditated and put the lives of constituents at risk.”
The Security Expert bemoaned on the issue of easy availability of guns in the country. This situation, he believes has influenced people’s decision to resort to violence at the least provocation.
Officials of the Electoral Commission closed down the Step to Christ registration centre, on Monday, July 20, 2020, in the Awutu Senya East constituency after some 15 gun-wielding men stormed the premises around 8am to sack some prospective voters.
Prof. Kwesi Aning noted also that, “One would have thought a substantive Minister in a government that seeks to bring the issue of vigilantism to book; having spent substantial government and donor funds to develop a code of conduct, roadmap and for a Minister to behave like any other vigilante raises very disturbing concerns.”
Prof. Anning further added that, Madam Koomson’s actions has tainted Ghana’s Democracy and at the same a “great disservice” to her party, constituents and the Ghanaian people at large.
He has therefore called on the Central Region Police Command to act speedily on investigations in connection with the violencethat occurred in the Awutu-Senya East Constituency.
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