A legal practitioner, Lawyer Smith, has expressed worry about why the Inspector General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has been reduced to responding to allegations on camera. He believes is a threat to Ghana’s security.
Speaking on Plan B FM late afternoon show EBAANOSEN, with Ohene Knnah, the legal practitioner explained, that the ongoing probe on camera has exposed the covetousness and loopholes in the police service to the whole world, and the claim by a senior police officer that Ghana’s current Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, is the worst to have served in that position.
Lawyer Smith made this known after the IGP made an appearance before the ad-hoc committee of parliament that is probing the leaked tape in which a plot was allegedly being hatched to remove the IGP from office.
When he appeared before the committee, COP George Alex Mensah, the Director-General of the Ghana Police Service in charge of operations, among other things stated emphatically that Dr. Dampare was mismanaging the service and that he was the worst IGP he had ever encountered in his decades of service.
The IGP himself has disagreed with the comment, saying his colleague probably committed a slip of the tongue.
Lawyer Smith expressed worry about Dr. Dampare for availing himself to appear before the committee. He described him as Ghana’s best IGP so far.
“It is important for people like us to underscore when people say that this IGP is the worst IGP, by suggesting that, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare will go down in history as the best IGP we ever had, and I think that’s important” he noted.
According to Lawyer Smith, IGP’s appearance before the parliamentary committee must be put in proper context and seen as a collective public gain rather than an individual public officer simply responding to so-called allegations against his person.
“I don’t think we should simply reduce it to IGP Dampare responding to allegations. We must put it in context that those allegations were being made in a toxic environment of political fanaticism, in which the allegations in themselves were a conjecture or a machination. Because if they were done publicly, then you can describe them as allegations that the IGP is responding to.” He added
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