Former Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has clarified the decision to withdraw soldiers assigned to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, during the previous Akufo-Addo administration, which faced widespread criticism.
In an interview with Umaru Sanda Amadu on Channel One TV's Face to Face, Nitiwul stressed that the withdrawal was not a unilateral decision but a collective assessment made by national security authorities at the time.
He further revealed that similar assessments were made in other cases, citing an instance where he nearly assigned soldiers to protect investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas due to perceived threats. "The Speaker was using soldiers, at a point we had to withdraw them because, in our assessment, he didn't need them at the time.
I told him [Speaker], my assessment was not just me.
