Security Analyst Adam Bona has called for investigations into claims of abuse levelled against personnel of the country’s security services by some suspects detained for kidnapping two Canadian women in Ghana. On Monday, some of the suspects accused officials of the Bureau of National Investigations and the Criminal Investigations Department of brutalizing them while in custody. In a similar fashion, …

But for the timely intervention of the Ghana Police Service, three soldiers serving in the Togolese army would have been beaten to death by villagers of a community in the Volta Region. The soldiers had entered Ghana allegedly through unapproved route to ostensibly affect the arrest of a man they claimed is a dissident. The Volta Regional Police Commander who …