“There’s a security threat,” warned Mr. Acheampong when he appeared before the Appointments Committee of Parliament Monday to be vetted for his designation.
Mr. Acheampong said until those charged with the responsibility to protect the country’s lawmakers are disciplined, the security of the MPs cannot be assured.
“Most of what we face here is clear case of indiscipline. Because the areas are marked. It’s incumbent on those who are tasked to ensure that security of the MP’s is assured,” he told the vetting committee.
“If you look at our elevator, there are people seated there to ensure that if it is marked MPs only and you’re not an MP, you don’t go into the elevator; but in the end those people sitting there allow everybody to go into it. So we have discipline issues to tackle, and if we allow that indiscipline that’s where somebody with an evil intention can take advantage of it,” he added.
He therefore called for attitudinal change saying: “With some small attitudinal change I’m sure the basis of our security will be assured, but I wish to refer other plans to parliamentary subcommittee on security to avoid revealing our safety in public domain for the ‘enemy’ to tap.”
Earlier on some Members of Parliament have called for increased of security for Ghana’s lawmakers in the wake of terrorist attacks close to UK’s parliament which led to five deaths.
ISIS, a terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack in Westminster.
Meanwhile, Deputy Majority Leader Adwoa Safo assured that authorities had put in place stringent measures to ensure heightened security.
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Source: Sammy Agyei//Frontpagehana.com
