{"id":275689,"date":"2011-02-08T07:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T07:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=51409"},"modified":"2011-02-08T07:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T07:37:57","slug":"pratt-wants-to-know-has-govt-lost-faith-in-the-security-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/02\/08\/pratt-wants-to-know-has-govt-lost-faith-in-the-security-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pratt Wants To Know: Has Gov&#8217;t Lost Faith In The Security Agencies?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Editor of the <strong>Insight newspaper<\/strong>,  Kwesi Pratt Jnr says if it turns out that the Mills\u2019 administration  truly bypassed the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI), Criminal  Investigative Department (CID), National Security Secretariat and  engaged the services of a private investigative journalist, then it begs  the question whether government has lost confidence in its security  agencies or not.<br \/>\n\u201cYou have the BNI,\u2026and so many security  organisations and this is precisely what they are to do. So if you have a  situation where Government bypasses its own establishments to engage a  journalist, it does raise a question of whether Government has lost  confidence in its security services,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nSpeaking in an interview with Shamima Muslim on <strong>Citi Eye Witness News<\/strong>,  the clearly flabbergasted senior journalist questioned the decision to  rely on Anas as the lead investigator saying from a purely partisan  political point of view, another issue will be raised about the  credibility of the newspaper.<br \/>\n\u201cIf you come to consider the paper  that Anas Aremeyaw Anas works for, and if you look at the issue from a  purely partisan political point of view, another issue will be raised  about the credibility of the newspaper which is not on your side when  you are going for an election\u201d.<br \/>\nGovernment, on Monday, February 07, 2011, admitted that a State institution sponsored Anas Aremeyaw Anas\u2019 &#8220;<strong>Enemies of the Nation<\/strong>&#8221; video, which exposed bribery and corruption at the Tema Port.<br \/>\nDeputy Information Minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who disclosed this to <strong>PeaceFM News<\/strong>, also revealed that the undercover cocoa smuggling investigations undertaken at the Elubo Border was also sponsored.<br \/>\nThe  outspoken social commentator opined that in as much as NDC activists  might question the wisdom in such a move by government, national  interest should override all other considerations.<br \/>\n\u201cWhatever  people say, this investigation is in the national interest, it has  exposed weaknesses in State institutions, and will lead to a correction  of some lapses\u2026Then there is another angle about our ethics. But if it  is in the national interest, then we can forget about the ethical  considerations and so on\u2026Personally, I think that the national interest  should supersede all other interests. My conclusion is that anything  which contributes to the fight against corruption ought to be seen as  being in the national interest,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Managing Editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr says if it turns out that the Mills\u2019 administration truly bypassed the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI), Criminal Investigative Department (CID), National Security Secretariat and engaged the services of a private investigative journalist, then it begs the question whether government has lost confidence in its security [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pratt Wants To Know: Has Gov&#039;t Lost Faith In The Security Agencies? 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