The acting National Security Coordinator, Major General Francis Adu Amanfo (rtd), has defended the forceful removal of the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator, DCOP Opare Addo from office.

Last Tuesday, a group of persons alleged to be part of the supposed disbanded pro-NPP vigilante group, the Delta Force, were arrested for allegedly attempting to forcibly remove the Regional Security Coordinator from his office.

The group stormed the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council purporting to be security officials.

They then insisted on taking the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator, DCOP Ayensu Opare Addo (rtd) out of his office.

But, Major General Francis Adu-Amanfo, who spoke to journalists during a tour of some mining sites in the Eastern, Ashanti, Central and Western Regions on Tuesday, said the tenure of DCOP Opare Addo had expired.

“The bottom line of all of this is that Opare Addo had a contract with National Security and for four years he was the regional liaison for the National Security. His term of the contract has expired. It was not renewed because of non-performance and his own criminal activities”, he said.