Baako jabs national security boss over Jubilee House

The Editor in Chief of the New Crusading Guide News paper, Malik Kweku Baako Jnr., is appalled by suggestion of the National Security Coordinator that the erstwhile Kufuor administration ignored wise security counsel before putting up the Jubilee House.

Gbevlo Lartey has said the president’s safety cannot be guaranteed because no security consideration went into the building of the Jubilee House.

Malik Kweku Baako slammed the security capo on Joy FM/MultiTV news analysis programme Newsfile during a discussion of the alleged ‘mansion’ being put up by President Mills to accommodate his security guards at his private residence in Accra.

Kweku Baako said the suggestion by Gbevlo Lartey amounted to “a pathetic rationalization of a classic case of security inertia.”

Ghanaians have questioned the wisdom in putting up the security outhouse at his residence when the Jubilee House, put up by former president Kufuor and which provides better security still remains vacant.

Contrary to claims by the security coordinator, Kweku Baako emphasized that the ex-president had done a thorough job by diplomatically engaging the French Embassy for them to relocate. Their proximity to the Jubilee House is considered a security threat to the presidency.

The Editor-In Chief pointed out that the transitional team of the National Democratic Congress which conducted an audit of the Jubilee House concluded that 98 per cent of the job had been completed and the incoming President could reside in there whilst the remaining two per cent was completed.

He wondered why since 2009 the current administration could not find solution to the problem, only to come back to tell old discredited stories about the Jubilee House. “If you are on top of your job, two-and-half years are enough” for the coordinator and his people to have found a solution to the problem, he stated.

Meanwhile, callers to various phone in programmes in the Brong-Ahafo region are calling on president Mills to move into the Jubilee House because his refusal to occupy the edifice is a disgrace to the presidency.

Source: Francis Owusu-Ansah, Space FM, Sunyani