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The Speaker of Parliament, Professor Aaron Mike Oquaye, has reiterated calls for police protection of parliamentarians.
Speaking during a visit to sympathize with the family of Mfantseman’s slain MP, Ekow Quansah Hayford, the president stressed the need for pragmatic measures to protect MPs and prevent further attacks against them.
“We will have to seriously consider this because it is urgent. I believe that the Minister of the Interior will do everything possible and ensure that parliamentarians receive maximum protection, ”he said.
He said that by the nature of their work they were likely not to be liked by everyone, hence the need for some level of protection for them.
Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah Bonsu wondered how many more MPs would have to die before the state realized the need for their protection.
In 2016, then-Abuakwa South MP JB Danquah was murdered at his home and the perpetrators had not yet been brought to account.
“Some of us have been asking for protection for parliamentarians for some time, but people don’t understand or say all kinds of things. How many more MPs will have to die before people understand that MPs need police protection, ”he said.
He added that the late deputy could have survived if he had had police protection.
For his part, the minority leader, Haruna Iddrisu, described the late MP as a good gentleman, always smiling happily and saying that Ghana had lost a great advantage.
He said that the cruel murder of the MP should be an awakening of the police in Ghana and called for protection for MPs.
“I pray that God gives him the strength to accept his loss,” he said as he conveyed his condolences to the family and hoped that at the end of the day justice would be served.
Mr. Hayford, 49, was shot by unknown assailants who stopped his vehicle on the Abeadze-Dominase-Abeadze-Duadzi-Mankessim road when he was returning from a field trip.
