Ghana’s Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has written officially to British High Commissioner Harriet Thompson, describing her recent ‘I’ll be interested to see where this goes’ comment on the last arrest of #FixTheCountry Movement convener Oliver Barker-Vormawor, as “uninformed, biased, misguided and unwarranted”.
After Mr Barker-Vormawor was arrested in mid-May this year for an alleged traffic offence, the UK envoy tweeted on 17 May: “Oliver Barker Vormawor, the convener of #FixTheCountry Movement, arrested again, I understand, for a motoring offense on his way to court. I’ll be interested to see where this goes…”
“Ordinarily, the Ghana Police Service would not have responded to comments such as yours, obviously made from either a biased or uninformed position”, the police noted.
“However”, it continued, “We have learnt from a previous painful experience that it has not been helpful to ignore such misguided, unwarranted, and biased comments intended to tarnish the reputation of the Ghana Police Service and that of our country.”
The police also accused the UK envoy of interfering in Ghana’s internal affairs with her tweet.
“What is more, we consider your tweet as a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 which enjoins diplomatic missions not to interfere in the internal affairs of their host country”.
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