Why The Security Agencies Must Now Disband All Private Security Companies Set Up By Ghana's Political Parties

Ordinary Ghanaians must thank Providence that there is now consensus amongst our nation's political parties, that they are amenable to the idea of the state providing their leading figures, including their presidential candidates, and their spouses, with police bodyguards.

The Ghana Police Service's leadership, ought to ask the government to quickly request that the governments of their police counterparts in the UK, the U.S., France and Russia, should ask their police forces' to provide the Ghanaian police officers who will be chosen by the political parties, as police bodyguards, with the opportunity to undergo intensive short courses in VIP protection duties in those nations - as soon as emergency funding for such technical assistance can be arranged for them.

Alternatively, police VIP protection trainers from those nations, could be sent here by their governments, as part of an emergency technical assistance initiative for the Ghana Police Service, to undertake the VIP bodyguard training here, instead.

Once that is done, the Ghana Police Service, and the other security agencies, must force all the political parties to disband the groups of "macho men" that they recruit supposedly for bodyguard duties - as past experience has shown  that they are malevolent militias in all but name.

The days of the Asoka Boys, the Bolga Bulldogs, Invisible Forces and their ilk, must be brought to a swift end - and now is the time for all the heads of the security agencies to meet with the presidential candidates, and the national executives of the parties they lead, to spell that out clearly to them.

They must warn all of them that under no circumstances will Ghana's security agencies  tolerate violence from any quarter, during, or after, the presidential and parliamentary elections, this November.

It is vital for the current leadership of the security agencies to make it absolutely clear to Ghana's political class that the bottom line, for all the security agencies, is that no Ghanaian politician's personal ambition, is worth their allowing the nation to be destroyed  for - and  that they have absolutely no intention of  allowing such a catastrophe to befall our homeland Ghana.

Finally, one hopes that now that all the political parties have accepted the idea of the state providing their leaders and their spouses, with police bodyguards of their own choosing, all the so-called "security companies" set up by political parties in Ghana, will be banned by law and disbanded - using overwhelming force if need be. Period.