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The Central Regional Police Command has invited the Minister for Special Initiatives, Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson, after she confessed to have fired a gun at a registration centre at Kasoa on Monday.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Monring Show, DSP Irene Oppong, the Public Relations Officer of the Central regional Police Command said the Minister has been invited to help with investigations.

“She is a Member of Parliament and so there is a procedure to follow before you can invite her and so we are currently through that process to invite Hawa Koomson to help with investigation,” DSP Oppong hinted to host Kwame Nkrumah Tikese on Tuesday morning.

The MP has claimed she gave the warning shot to defend herself after feeling threatened while touring registration centres in the constituency Monday as some thugs on motorbikes surrounded her car.

“I’m a Member of Parliament, I need to protect myself. It was at dawn; my police escort had not started work yet. So, that is the modus operandi I engaged in his absence,” she told Accra-based Adom FM.

Call to resign 

Meanwhile, Security Expert Prof Kwesi Aning has urged Hon. Mavis Hawa Koomson as Minister of Special Development Initiatives to resign her position after she admitted firing a gunshot at a registration centre in Kasoa, claiming she cannot be trusted with the position.

“It is my hope that the President will ask Hawa Koomson to step aside or probably dismisses her,” the security expert called.

“Hawa Koomson has done her party, constituents, and certainly the good people of Ghana a great disservice,” Prof. Kwesi Aning.

His comment comes on the back of the Minister’s admission of firing gunshots at a voter registration centre in Awutu-Senya East Constituency in the Central Region.

He spoke to Joy FM's Evans Mensah on PM Express.