A politician who also identifies as a former Northern regional chairman of the ruling NPP and a police commissioner who goes by the name Mensa are heard plotting to have IGP Dr. George Akuffo Dampare removed because he is too firm and won’t allow the 2024 election to be rigged in a leaked audio that has gone viral.
The Police Commissioner, who is rumored to be retiring, is heard telling the politician that the NPP should forget about winning the next general elections if the current IGP stays in office in the leaked audio, which was shared by GHone TV on its Twitter page.
In order to persuade the politician, Commissioner Mensa cited the strict security measures the IGP put in place during the recent Assin North by-election. He promised to take a similar or even more stringent approach, which might prevent the NPP from stealing the 2024 election.
“This IGP won’t help us. He won’t, he wants everything to be done fairly and we don’t win elections that way. If we don’t remove him, we can’t break the 8, in politics we need machinations and this IGP won’t allow that,” Commissioner Mensa said in the leaked audio.
He continued by lamenting the failure of his efforts to persuade President Akufo-Addo to fire IGP Dr. Dampare.
“The President is not listening; I have been telling him. Even if they don’t want to give me the job, they should give it to another person but they don’t want to listen,” Commissioner Mensa cried in the explosive audio.
LEAKED AUDIO‼️‼️
Police Commissioner urges govt to remove Dampare because he won’t allow rigging in 2024 polls.#GHOneNews pic.twitter.com/W4954AdzbJ
— GHOne TV (@GHOneTV) July 11, 2023
The identity of Police Commissioner Mensa and the former NPP northern regional chairman with whom he had the now-leaked conversation are still unknown.
In the meantime, John Dramani Mahama, the leader of the opposition National Democratic Congress, has declared that the 2024 elections will be “a do-or-die affair” and that his party will fight any attempt to rig the results.
