Members of Ghana’s Parliament have expressed anger at the Government for its refusal to assign police to them individually to protect them every day and night.
The angry MPs’ made the point that, all MMDCEs have police protection in their homes and offices but an MP has non of these protections.
They disclosed that, it will take just a day for the president to appoint a new DCE should he or she loses his life through an attacked but it will take a month and a lot of money for an MP to be replaced through bye election.
Law makers are with the view that, both The Government and The State have neglected The Legislative Arm of the State for far too long, when it comes to security matters.
The MPs’ however, called on the Minister of Interior, Ambrose Dery as matter of emergency to provide them with police before, the third session of the seventh Parliament ends.
This debate has come back to The Floor again when MP for Suame and Majority Leader, Osei kyei Mensah Bonso made a statement in relation to the recent attacks on MP for Nhyiaeso, Kennedy Kwasi Kankam in his residence.
In his statement, the said MP was attacked by three armed men who skipped the wall into the house between the hours of 1am and 3am on Sunday, November 3, 2019 ostensibly to kill him.
According to the majority Leader, the robbers, ransacked his house and made away with lap top, mobile phones plus other valuable materials including his Land cruiser but later abandoned the car on the way.
The Leader of The House, said what saved him was, his baby who was sucking the mother’s breast at the time of operations, because the robbers told him that, “we were sent to kill you but because of this baby, you’re forgiven”.
In his respond, the interior Minister asked the MPs’ to submit to his office their residential addresses for actual ion.
Meanwhile, The First Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei Owusu has referred the matter to the select committee on Defence and interior, and report in a week time.
Story filed by Edzorna Francis Mensah.
