Samuel Abu Jinapor, spokesperson for the New Patriotic Party’s presidential flag bearer, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has said that President Atta Mills remarks that he is not a law enforcement officer shows that the president is not on top of his brief. Last week, responding to criticisms from the NPP, President John Atta Mills said that it is not his duty to physically arrest and prosecute miscreants fomenting trouble in the ongoing biometric registration exercise. Abu Jinapor, speaking on Peace FM’ Kokrokoo morning show said that President Mills cannot run away from his duty adding that Mills must take ultimate responsibility of the shortcomings of the security agencies in the ongoing biometric exercise. He said that, as the Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, the president has all the security apparatus at his disposal and was able to put the security agencies on red alert when the main opposition leader, Nana Addo made a statement, he (Mills) deemed not right. According to Abu Jinapor, when it came to the issue of the violence that has characterized the ongoing registration exercise, notably the Odododiodoo constituency, President Mills wanted to distance himself from the security lapses with the excuse that he (Mills) is not a police officer to be arresting and prosecuting those indulging the violence. “We have a president who has all the state security apparatus at his disposal and was able to put the security services under red alert because of what an opposition leader said. However when it comes to the biometric registration exercise in which violence is being meted to ordinary citizens, the president says he is not a policeman”, Abu Jinapor said. He further went on to remark that not only has the president lost control, not on top of his brief, but also President Mills is not on top his job. He also condemned comments made by the president that sort to condone the coordinated attacks on NPP activists particularly in the Odododiodoo constituency. Hon. Kojo Adu-Asare, Member of Parliament for the Adentan constituency, who was also on the show said that he sees nothing wrong with the statement the president made. “What is wrong with what the president said? Is he a policeman? What rank is he?” he quizzed. He added that the president has appointed people who are competent enough to handle the issues which have cropped up.