He told Dzifa Bampoh on the First Take on 3FM Thursday July 8 that they are trained to deal with external threats and not internal problems.
Dealing with crimes as well as crowd control is the work of the Police and not the Military, he said.
His comments come after a group of military men were captured on camera in Wa in the Upper West Regional brutalizing civilians on the streets.
According to one eyewitness, one of the soldiers was believed to have boarded what is referred to as “Yellow Yellow” or “Mahama Cambo” and lost his phone.
He also spoke about the disturbances at Ejura that occurred on Tuesday, June 29 which led to the death of two and injury to four.
He said “Talking about Ejura for example, I believe the Military are being misused, doing a job for which they are not trained for. Soldiers are not trained to disperse or deal with crowd, that is the job of the Police. Many of us don’t understand the role of the Military in our national security set up.
“The role mainly is to defend Ghana from external aggression and not to be used to deal with internal difficulties that the government faces.”
He further blamed the recent disturbances on the failure to implement the recommendations of the Emile Short Commission that investigated the chaos that characterized the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-elections
“It is all because when these things happened in the past we never dealt with them so they are recurring.
“I think there was the Emile Short commission a few years ago and came out with a report but most of the recommendations were not taken up,” he said.
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