The number of vigilante groups operating in the country has increased from 27 to about 72, as captured under the Vigilantism and Related Offences Act 2019 (Act 999), a security analyst, Dr Adam Bonaa, has indicated.
According to him, most of these groups were no longer operating as vigilante groups as they had changed to become registered private security agencies, while some serve as escorts for political parties, which made it difficult to identify them.
Dr Bonaa has, therefore, called on the Minister of National Security, Mr Albert Kan-Dapaah, to investigate their operations and ensure that leaders of those groups were arrested and prosecuted.
He made the call at the second democratic lecture series held in Accra on Monday and organised by Care For Free and Fair Elections, Ghana ("Care Ghana"), a civil society organisation, in partnership with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES).