DCOP Opare Addo’s Contract Has Expired; He Was Removed By My Officers - National Security Boss

The acting National Security Coordinator, Major General Francis Adu Amanfo rtd, has defended forceful removal of the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator, Deputy Commissioner of Police DCOP Opare Addo from office. Last Tuesday, a group of persons alleged to be part of supposed disbanded pro-NPP vigilante group, the

Delta Force, were arrested for attempting to forcibly remove the Regional Security Coordinator from his office. The group stormed the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council purporting to be security officials. They then insisted on taking the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator, DCOP Ayensu Opare Addo rtd out

of his office. But, Major General Francis Adu-Amanfo, who spoke to journalists during a tour of some mining sites in the Eastern, Ashanti, Central and Western Regions on Tuesday, said the tenure of DCOP Opare Addo has expired, but he has refused to vacate his post. The bottom line of all of this is that Opare Addo had a contract with National Security

and for four years he was the regional liaison for the National Security. His term of the contract has expired. It was not renewed because of non-performance and his own criminal activities, he said. When asked for further clarity on his claims of criminality against DCOP Opare Addo, the acting National Security Coordinator said those issues are under investigation.

I was treated unreasonably - Opare Addo

DCOP Ayensu Opare Addo (rtd) disclosed that members of the supposed disbanded vigilante group, Delta Force, are working as National Security operatives. After suffering the assault at the hands of persons who identified themselves as operatives of National Security, he told the media that he personally identified two of

the operatives who arrested him, as members of the supposed disbanded group. This revelation fuels the suspicions that members of some vigilante groups may have been absorbed into National Security after the supposed disbandment. The Delta Force was disbanded, so I knew they would not act again. I never

expected the Delta Force to act this way because I knew them, and when I realized that they were not faithful to the government of the day, I disbanded the vigilante group. But they are [now] calling themselves National Security operatives. DCOP Ayensu Opare Addo (rtd) also recounted his ordeal at the hands of his attackers

and questioned the reasonability of the treatment meted out to him. I was the one they attacked. They handcuffed me and hit me with an AK-47. I don’t know why a reasonable and sensible senior operative of the National Security will direct junior officers to come and attack me when they can call me and handle this matter reasonably, DCOP Ayensu Opare Addo added.

Delta Force activities 

Police personnel from the Ashanti Regional Police Command, led by the Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP David Agyemang Adjem, arrested the said members of the group after the incident. The pro-NPP vigilante group was supposedly disbanded after the coming into force of the Vigilantism and Other

Related Offences Act, prior to the 2020 general elections. This is not the first time such an incident has occurred. In 2017, a group of Delta Force members attempted to remove the then Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator, just when the Nana Addo government had come into office.