The Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul has denied reports that government is training mercenaries at the jubilee house.[ads2]
At a press briefing in Parliament, Mr Nitiwul stated emphatically that the reports murmuring in the media is baseless, indicating that government does not intend to compromise the security of the State.
“Let me state that this President will hand over to the duly elected President of Ghana on the 7th of January 2025. Nobody will interfere in the choice of the people of Ghana, not from the military, not the Police and not any politician.”[ads3]
“This government has not brought anybody into the Jubilee House, who is not a soldier, who is not a police or who is not into the national security. We have not done that since we came into power, and we don’t intend to do it,” Mr Nitiwul said.
There has been reports in the media about some mercenaries being trained at the presidency to interfere in the 2024 general elections.
The host of Loud Silence TV’s “With All Due Respect” show, Kelvin Taylor first made the allegation where he said the mercenaries are being trained by a top security officer at the Presidency.[ads4]
This led to a call by the Minority in Parliament for the government to investigate the issue with
“The Minority takes a very serious view of the exposé, 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 to train?”[ads5]
