Deputy Communications Minister, Felix Kwakye Ofosu has said the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) did no wrong by arresting the three South African ex-Police officers.

He claimed that the “youngest among them is widely travelled – he frequents Iraq and that is history that you cannot discount… The BNI did no wrong in swooping in to undertake the exercise to find out exactly what was happening.”

He argued that “no self-respecting security agency anywhere in the world will not have taken the action that the BNI took upon learning that you have persons from another country engaged in some form of training in an obscure part of this country; especially, given the heightened security awareness in this country, around West Africa and around the world.”

The BNI last week arrested three South African Police Officers for allegedly training the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) private security men on weapon handling among others

The three are; 54-year-old Major Ahmed Shaik Hazis (Rtd.), 39-year–old WO/ Denver Dwayhe Naidu (Rtd.) and 45-year-old Captain Mlungiseleli Jokani (Rtd.)

Contributing to a panel discussion on Joy FM, Mr. Kwakye-Ofosu said the state “cannot allow a situation where political parties form private armies of some sort under the guise of protecting their leaders.”

He said the NPP’s explanation for bringing in the three former Police Officers from South Africa is “the most incompetent and abysmal defence.”

“Based on such flimsy excuses, you cannot engage in what is obviously an untenable action,” he remarked.