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Dr Kwesi Aning has told Class News that people are jealous of him just because the media refers to him as a security expert.

The Head of Research at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has, therefore, asked the media to just refer to him as a security analyst, since calling him an expert provokes envy against him.

“So, when you describe me as an expert, somebody just hates me for that. And somebody wants to destroy me just for that, so just call me an analyst, it’s much more humble, or you can just call me Kwesi Aning, I don’t mind. For me titles don’t mean anything,” Dr Aning said.

“…People think I’m a fool, people think I’m stupid, probably people might rather want to bump me off. I think there’s so much envy and jealousy…,” he said when Emefa Apawu asked him if officialdom contacts him, sometimes, to tap into his expertise over security concerns and terrorism-related issues in the country.

His comments come on the heels of the acknowledgment by the National Security Council on Wednesday March 16 that terrorist attacks on Mali, Burkina Faso and lately Cote d’Ivoire, meant there was “credible” threat of an attack on Ghana, too.

Dr Aning lauded the Police Service for getting in touch with him, occasionally on security issues in the country. “…I think the police service does well, very well, but apart from that [nobody contacts me], and I’m not really looking forward to it anyway. I mean I don’t think I do what I do because I want recognition [or because] I want to be contacted, no. I do what I do because I think I love my country, I do what I do very well and I think I can contribute, so I think we can contribute in different ways.”