The National Security Minister has disclosed that officials of the National Security SWAT team that was at the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency for the by-election in January could include former members of vigilante groups.
Albert Kan-Dapaah denied suggestions that the masked men were all members of a vigilante group in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), saying it was impossible.
“If the suggestion is that included in the operatives are people who normally belong to a particular vigilante group, that will be surprising.
“If some of them in the past participated in some vigilante groups, that could be possible,” Mr Kan-Dapaah added
The Minister was testifying at the Emile Short-led Commission constituted by the president to investigate the violence that characterised the January 31 by-elections at the constituency.
The masked National Security operatives he referred to have been accused of instigating the violence that led to the injuring of some six members of the public on Election Day.
These masked National Security men have been accused of instigating the by-election violence