Security analyst and CEO of Security Warehouse, Adam Bonaa has said the law on vigilantism will not work.

In July 2019, the Vigilantism and Related Offences Law was passed to disband political party vigilante groups, and forbid acts of vigilantism in the country, following the violence that characterised the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.

Speaking to Ayisha Ibrahim on PM: Express Tuesday, the security analyst indicated that implementation of the law may be impossible because personnel within the execution value chain are mostly from the camp of the President.

“This Vigilante Law will not work because the guys who are supposed to be the various District, Regional, and Municipal Security Council Chairmen are the appointees of the President.”

Although President Akufo-Addo had assured that: “The law is going to be enforced if anybody tries to violate or breach that Law. It is not going to be law just on paper it will be acted upon if anybody tries to breach the law,” Mr Bonaa thinks otherwise.

“These guys represent the government at the local level,” he told Ayisha.

Meanwhile, the Interior Minister-Designate, Ambrose Dery during vetting assured political party vigilantism is under control.

Again, the security analyst disagreed.

“What probably the Minister may be referring to is what we refer to as the inter-party vigilantism, now has been replaced with intra-party vigilantism,” Mr Bonaa insisted.

The Security Warehouse CEO observed; "you still have a lot of rivalry between the two political parties [NPP and NDC] where if it’s the turn of the NDC and they don’t like you within the party, they beat you up and no one is there to arrest you."

"Even if you are arrested, the next day you are let go,” he added.

He recalled an incident that took place before the 2020 general elections where he said “a DCE actually walked into a police station, with some chaps and beat up a police officer, the counter ensued dragged him out and he was beaten blooded".

According to him, the officer has to be transferred from the place for his own safety.

“And so I would say that yes, the Minister of the Interior would be right if he says it’s come down, and maybe he is basing his facts on inter-party not intra-party,” he stressed.