GOVERNMENT has no intention of establishing any secret security agency to maintain law and order in the country, the Minister of the Interior, Alhaji Malik Alhassan Yakubu, has said.
He said the government will maintain the constitutional security organisations mandated to carry out security duties and equip them to perform more effectively.
Alhaji Yakubu gave the assurance at Yendi on Tuesday when he held a meeting with security agencies in the Yendi, Gushegu Karaga and Zabzugu Tatale districts of the Northern Region.
He commended security personnel in the area for their hard work and dedication in extremely difficult conditions, adding that, “their operations have brought peace to the conflict areas in the region”.
Alhaji Yakubu, who is also the Member of Parliament for Yendi, announced that the government is planning seriously to scrap operation “gong gong” in the eastern corridor of the Yendi area. Operation ‘gong gong’ is the task force in the Northern Region.
To this end, he said chiefs, opinion leaders, district chief executives and security officers have been tasked to come out with a comprehensive report on areas where the government should provide a permanent police post in replacement of operation “gong gong”.
On zero tolerance for corruption, he said it is not only applicable to ministers and government functionaries, but every Ghanaian irrespective of one’s background.
Touching on efficiency, the minister said: “Equipping security personnel for efficiency is not a favour to the officer concerned but rather the credit comes to the state”.
He, therefore, charged the security personnel to uphold the integrity of their profession by pointing out the bad nuts among them in order not to tarnish their image.
Mr Mohammed Adams, Divisional Police Commander in-charge of Yendi, appealed to the government to provide them with vehicles and communication equipment to enable them perform well.
The meeting was attended by personnel of the Police and Fire Services, Prisons, CEPS, military and immigration officers.
Source: GhanaWeb
