Former Chief of Defence Staff under erstwhile President Mills has waded into discussions relating to National Security Minister, Kan Dapaah.
Brigadier General Nunoo Mensah, who although would not blame National Security Chief for his actions because it was a human error was, however, was critical of him.
Speaking in an interview with GhanaWeb, Brigadier Nunoo Mensah averred that Mr. Kan Dapaah, through his actions, had jeopardised the security of the president whom he advises primarily and the nation as a whole. He explained that no one knew the degree of his vulnerability in the company of the lady as the ‘sensitive’ information he could have disclosed to her remains unknown.
“…if it happened without us knowing it, anybody who knew about it could have blackmailed him, saying “… I have this tape on you and if you don’t behave this way, like the way the lady was doing to him… she was in control. It means that you can be manipulated by anybody.
As a [Security] Minister, you are a very powerful person. You have the president’s ear and advise him every morning. If you want something from the president and you have been compromised in this way, for fear that you are going to be exposed you’ll be doing things that will harm our national security,” he said.
Citing himself as an example, General Nunoo Mensah stated that the air of authority between him and his subordinates would be awkward and destroyed and hence would always hang around his head. He believed this was reason enough to walk to the president to resign to keep his integrity.
“… I cannot hold on to such a position if it happened to me… We need to have people of integrity in this country we’re suffering because we don’t have men and women of integrity and that is very sad. There are certain principles in life that we must uphold,” he stressed.
Adding a word of caution to President Akufo-Addo, the former Chief of Defense Staff noted that if after investigations, the video turns out to be accurate, Mr. Kan Dapaah should be sacked.
He advised the president to call the National Security Minister to his office to query him and find out the truth of the matter and ask him to step aside.
A video of National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah, making the rounds on social media shows him sweet-talking a woman who by the look of things is not his wife.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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If you say he has not over exposed the president and the state you be there. I now see why the murderer's of the tardi girls are still at large. He said he was in London a national security minister telling the world that he was in London and about to attend and thinking about a hug instead of national security duties which probably took him there. He at his aged should be held in high esteem with reference to morals, but see the way he is turning like a model. Well if it had been a NDC appointee hell would have broken loose. Hypocrite journalist. Posterity shall judge you all. We are saying that he should resign so he could continue with his modeling
EVERY ILL IN THE NPP QUARTERS IS RIGHT BUT IF IT WERE NDC HELL BREAK LOOSE. WE ARE COUNTING THE ILLS THAT ARE BEING MADE RIGHT ALL THE TIME AND AT THE RIGHT TIME THE TIME BOB WILL EXPLODE.
We are gracing stoopidity in this country. Imagine the Defense Secretary of US, Director of FBI, CIA, MI5, Mossad, or SAS was caught on tape like Kan Dapaah the National Security Minister for Ghana, hope you know the consequences? In some advance countries like Japan and China you have no choice but to commit suicide. But as i said we grace stoopidity. This is the main reason we are light years behind these advance countries. The words are credibility and integrity, the hallmark
WHY SHOULD HE RESIGN? JUST BECAUSE A "LOVI LOVI" CHAT IS LEAKED TO THE PUBLIC? IS IT A CRIME? HYPOCRITES! LEAVE THE MAN ALONE! GO KAN!
Let us agree to Disagree, the President should reassign him to another Job,
LET'S DO THIS. I SEE HOW HARD IT IS FOR THOSE ASKING THE SECURITY MINISTER TO KEEP HIS JOB. YOU CAN'T DEFEND THE BAD AND WE MUST ADMIT THAT. HE MUST RESIGN SO AS TO BE TAKEN SERIOUS. WHEN HE STAYS, HE WON'T BE TAKEN SERIOUS. BE SMART MR. KEN
Kan Dapaah is disgrace to his family and the country as whole, how could national security Minster exposed himself in this manner who knows the kind of information he has leak to that lady. Resign, you are not fit to be National Security Minister, no serious nation will still have you as their Minister. This is some of the reasons we are been refer to as ***barred word*** HOLE.
THERE IS ALWAYS IN HISTORY THE NEED TO SACRIFICE SOMEBODY TO SAVE THE SOCIETY. JESUS WAS SACRIFICE TO SAVE HUMANITY. INDIVIDUALS ARE SACRIFICE AT SOME POINT IN TIME TO KEEP THEIR SOCIETY SAFE. THE ACTION OF KAN DAPAAH IS COMMON AMONG MANY MEN AND POLITICIANS SO IT IS NOT WELL CONDEMNED. IT IS UNFORTUNATE IT HAS HAPPENED TO KAN DAPAAH AS HE HOLDS A SENSITIVE OFFICE IN GOVERNMENT. HENCE THE ACTION CANNOT BE CONDONED. HIS SACRIFICE WILL BE A LESSON TO MANY. IT WILL HELP TO PROMOTE SANITY IN THE SOCIETY AS MORE MEN IN HIGH OFFICE WILL BECOME CAREFUL. FAILURE BY THE RULING PARTY TO ACT WILL CAUSE THEM A FORTUNE AND HARM THE NATION'S PROGRESS. KAN DAPAAH MUST GO. HE MUST BE SACRIFICED FOR THE GOOD OF HIS PARTY, GOVERNMENT AND THE NATION.
WHY CANT WE DRAW A LINE BETWEEN ONES PRIVATE LIFE. THOSE CALLING FOR HIS RESIGNATION ARE HYPOCRITES BECAUSE IN THEIR RESPECTIVE SECRETS THEY DO SAME IF NOT WORSE THINGS. WHAT HAS HAPPENED MAY AFFECT HIS MARRIAGE BUT I NOT HIS JOB OR PROFESSION.
Ken Dapaa need to resign, because of the reasons below; “…if it happened without us knowing it, anybody who knew about it could have blackmailed him, saying “… I have this tape on you and if you don’t behave this way, like the way the lady was doing to him… she was in control. It means that you can be manipulated by anybody. As a [Security] Minister, you are a very powerful person. You have the president’s ear and advise him every morning. If you want something from the president and you have been compromised in this way, for fear that you are going to be exposed you’ll be doing things that will harm our national security,” he said.