Presidents need military training – Bagbin

The Majority Leader in Parliament Alban Bagbin is recommending the introduction of military training for the president and politicians seeking the high office.

According to Bagbin, the exercise will enable the president carry out his constitutional mandate and make conclusions devoid of emotion and parochial limitations.

Ghana’s current arraignments does not sanction military training for the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces and President of the Republic.

But the former Health Minister in an interview with Starr FM’s Papiss Daf Abdallah said training the president on security matters will help improve governance and management of the defense and security sector.

“In the political arena we have failed to train the leaders we elect, we just elect people to depend on their natural abilities, but if we had, had time to even train politicians before they ascend the higher office, you would be more comfortable in the decisions that they take because you know that they are imbued with all the qualities that can take them away from passions, emotions and parochialism,” the NDC MP for Nadowli Kaleo said.

The Ghana Armed Forces Command and Staff College is currently holding its annual defence management course aimed at familiarizing participants with the need for political direction of defence and methods of its application.