Expanding the scope of military operations – Aning to Akufo-Addo

General news for Saturday, August 29, 2020

Source: Starr FM

2020-08-29

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Security analyst Professor Kwesi Aning called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to expand the scope of military operations.

He is also asking the president to add the weapons recovery operation as in the case of the Dome Faase incident to the work of the military.

In the incident, two soldiers were beaten to pulp by angry youths and a civilian was wounded by firearms over land reasons.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, during his one-day tour of the Volta region, announced that he will establish a committee to investigate the reported military brutalities that characterized the recently completed voter registration exercise.

To justify the call, Professor Aning, research director at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Center, said there had been a very subtle shift in the relationship between the military and the general public.

Speaking about ‘Analysis’, he said that “the military has withdrawn because they carried out a particular operation, ended it and returned to the barracks. Now is the time for us to say, ‘wait, how did we get here?’ ”.

He indicated “and that is why I call upon his excellence the president if he can expand the scope of action of the military during the recently completed registration exercise. And add this particular case as well. And probably a third mandate on the broader use of the army in internal operations, when those operations do not threaten the existence of the state ”.

“Their visibility has been affected, they have been undermined, but in particular situations when people show enough strength, they will retreat. So we need to get back to the drawing board as quickly and as possible and make sure these cases don’t happen. “

He highlighted: “What happened in this town is not just about the military. Who issued the order? If the military has been used in a way that it should not have been used, then we must understand it. And that is why the call to His Excellency the President to expand the scope of what the military did during the recently completed registration, “he added.