2024 Elections: Security agencies won’t be complacent – Prisons Director assures

The Director-General of Prisons, Isaac Kofi Egyir, says he is very optimistic that the unity that exists among the heads of the security agencies in Ghana will enable them to work collectively to ensure peaceful elections in 2024.

According to Mr. Egyir, although Ghana has a track record of violence-free elections, the security agencies will not be complacent in the discharge of their duties.

“We have always produced trouble-free outcomes. Looking at the unity that exists among the heads of the security agencies, I have no doubt that we will have peaceful outcomes”.

“In the 2024 elections, we need not to lower our guards, we need to work hard to ensure that all the actors experience an atmosphere that is free from harm and intimidation. We will not take anything for granted,” the Prisons boss noted while speaking at a meeting of the national election security task force at the police headquarters”.

The Chief Fire Officer, Julius Aalebkure Kuunuor, also assured that his team is always ready to support the police and provide security before, during, and after the election process.

“I want to assure the IGP and the EC chair that we are already in readiness, and apart from elections, we are in a busy season, and we don’t take anything for granted. So we want to assure the IGP that we are ready for the task ahead”.

During the meeting, the IGP, Dr. Akuffo Dampare, assured the chairperson of the Electoral Commission that all voters would be fully protected throughout the process.

“We want to assure my sister (EC Chairperson) that we will continue to work with my colleagues here to ensure that just as elections in the country, since I took over have been peaceful, the 2024 polls will be same”.