Managing national security affairs of a country is a specialized assignment hence its restricted cover.
Even parliamentary debates over the budget of this department is spared the usual exchanges on the floor.
Those who head such departments even after their tenures are bound by the secrets of the office.
The national security archives of the country being confidential for that matter have been kept classified since independence. Only a fraction of these are declassified. Those who man the department when invited to public forums to speak long after their retirements are measured in what they disclose.
Kwabena Adu-Boahene the man who managed the Signals Bureau sang like a canary bird a few days ago in a manner which did not help matters pertaining to national security operations of the country.
His disclosures had to be because he was pushed to the wall by the one of the many unnecessary press conferences of the Attorney General Dominic Ayine.
The Chief Government legal officer’s preference for accusing former government appointees in public is worrying.
Now that matters which should have been confined to the four walls of the national security secretariat are being let out recklessly thanks to Dominic Ayine we demand that something be done about it going forward.
When Atta Akyea described the rush to accuse his client in public instead of the courts he knew what he was talking about.
Now we know how the NDC then the main opposition party benefited from national security operations largesse especially before the last elections.
When the objective of a mission such as Dominic Ayine sought to do is not in the national interest the fallouts are unproductive.
Propaganda while holding public office such as the Attorney-General’s Office is injurious to the national interest, the implications of which are widespread.
It is our position that those who are offered government appointments should be educated about the workings of state departments and the need to avoid such pitfalls.
In the last three days, the media especially the print have been awash with details of some aspects of national security operations the future implications of which are anything but favourable.
Pre-assumption of office seminars of fresh appointees is highly encouraged under the circumstances.
What has become of the image of Kwabena Adu-Boahene and his spouse after the Attorney-General’s media trial?
For those with limited knowledge about national security and hardly read between the lines they could be swayed to think that the man is a villain who dipped his hands into the public purse for personal gains.
If only such persons understand the amount of public monies which go into managing restive places such as Bawku and fighting terrorism threats, they would have a rethink.
We would not be off course when we conclude that Dominic Ayine has done a great disservice to the cause of national security. In some jurisdictions this man should have long resigned. From inviting his accuser A-Plus to join him in the gutter and now this has proven to be a man who should not be entrusted with a critical state department such as the Attorney General’s.
