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General news for Friday 12 February 2021
Source: 3 News
2021-02-12
Minister of National Security, Kan-Dapaah
A fraud and security consultant, Richard Kumadoe, said the oversight by the minister-designate for national security, Albert Kan Dapaah, should not have been broadcast live on television.
Mr Kumado said the answers to questions posed by committee members regarding the operations of institutions such as the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI), now known as the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB), exposed too much of the Ghana’s security arrangements to the whole world, he said, could have been avoided by checking it behind closed doors.
He said this in an interview with Berla Mundi on New Day on TV3, Thursday January 11.
Mr Kumadoe said, “I have worked with the BNI (Bureau of National Investigation) for a number of years, practiced security and security intelligence across the world for years and I think i have a personal issue for him to be looked at publicly, for the sake of the many things he said that shouldn’t be said, for example he was pushed and he talked about some internal BNI operations .
“The BNI is a secret society organization and, like any other secret service around the world, the operations and internal operations of the secret service are not disclosed and are not intended for the public, but for once it has admitted that the army invasion of parliament was a coup ”.
He added: “My uncle Kan Dapaah, if you listen to me this is what I don’t do, I don’t blame you but I’m just saying if I were you I wouldn’t. . let me be looked at publicly.
“A lot of the things you say that come into the public domain will also call for a public debate where some people might have tipped into many extreme positions, which is unfortunate.”
During the audit, Mr. Kan-Dapaah said, among other things, that there are deliberate plans to refocus the old BNI to fulfill its mandate.
“We thought they were not doing enough in terms of intelligence,” he admitted, noting that the Bureau repeatedly carried out operations that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the National Police Service. Ghana should undertake.
To that end, he said staff had been recruited to bolster the investigative body’s analytical operations outside of its intelligence operations.
He was responding to a question posed by Ablekuma West Constituency MP Ursula Owusu-Ekuful about what informed the name change from BNI to NIB.
“Today we don’t have the NIB which only collects intelligence, we also have a well-trained team in place that analyzes [intelligence]He said, adding that the situation also resulted in the name change.
“This is a complete refocus, Mr. President,” he stressed.
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