{"id":1244161,"date":"2022-11-04T19:20:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/04\/minority-calls-for-independent-probe-into-allegations-of-mercenaries-at-asutsuare\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T19:20:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:20:46","slug":"minority-calls-for-independent-probe-into-allegations-of-mercenaries-at-asutsuare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/04\/minority-calls-for-independent-probe-into-allegations-of-mercenaries-at-asutsuare\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority calls for independent probe into allegations of mercenaries at Asutsuare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Minority in Parliament wants the government to probe allegations of the training of some mercenaries at Asutsuare.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s call follows an expos\u00e9 by social media commentator, Kelvin Taylor, which disclosed the alleged training of some mercenaries by a top security officer at the Jubilee House.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists, the Ranking Member on the Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament, James Agalga, said the government must speak to the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minority takes a very serious view of the expos\u00e9, and we demand that government comes out to clarify if it is actually the case that mercenaries have been brought into this country and are being trained at Asutsuare, and they are taken by escorts to Asutsuare every morning by bus or train?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think this calls for an independent probe into the matter. We can\u2019t just go to sleep. The National Security and Interior Ministers need to speak on the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also called on international organisations to keep an eye on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe African Union, ECOWAS, and others should monitor the development. These are dark clouds gathering over our political landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"L-sMfccCDTI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minority accuses Clerk of Parliament of bias for not recording walkout | Citi Newsroom\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L-sMfccCDTI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament wants the government to probe allegations of the training of some mercenaries at Asutsuare. The group\u2019s call follows an expos\u00e9 by social media commentator, Kelvin Taylor, which disclosed the alleged training of some mercenaries by a top security officer at the Jubilee House. Speaking to journalists, the Ranking Member on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1244163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}