The Minister for the Interior, , has confirmed speculative reports about the removal of the military team providing security for the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Adukwei Mensa.
Speaking on the matter in a JoyNews interview on Friday, July 4, 2025, and monitored by GhanaWeb, Muntaka clarified that the military detail had been withdrawn and replaced with a police team, questioning the rationale behind assigning military personnel to provide security for civilians.
He explained that the new procedure, assigning police to provide security for all high-ranking officials in the country, was in line with a government decision not to use the military for such duties. "Let me say, that is not true because the EC herself, I don't know whether you've spoken to her.
I personally spoke to her after the meeting and we agreed that we were no longer going to use the military to provide civilian protection. "So, the guards were withdrawn and replaced with the police so, if you ask her she will tell you she has a bodyguard, she has police manning her gate both day and night and therefore, it is never true if anybody says that her security has been withdrawn," the minister stated.
