The Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has received praise from IMANI boss Franklin Cudjoe, who called him “excellent.”
He thinks President Akufo-Addo made one of the best appointments of his administration when he made him.
Mr. Cudjoe urged the President to disregard those who were trying to get the police chief fired because of his professionalism in a Facebook post.
“Mr. President, ignore those treasonable elements planning to oust the Inspector General of Police (IGP). Much as we at IMANI would have wished the power to appoint the IGP should be taken away from your office and vested in a police electoral college, we say without equivocation that the current IGP is one of the very few excellent appointments you have made in seven years,”
” Remove the IGP, and you would have lent credence to the ignoble and infamous sagas of your penchant for throwing good men and women to political hounds on a whim. May this not be part of your enduring legacy”.
Relatively, a seven-member committee has been formed by Speaker of the House Alban Bagbin to look into a leaked audio recording that details a plot to have Inspector-General of Police Dr. George Akuffo Dampare removed from office because he will be too strict and professional during the 2024 elections to allow the ruling New Patriotic Party to rig the results.
The committee should consist of three representatives from both the majority and minority parties in the house, as well as one technical person, according to the speaker.
His order was required by a statement made by Kofi Armah Buah, the deputy minority leader, in which he called for the formation of a committee to look into the explosive audio that had leaked.
A plot to remove the IGP with the intention of making it simpler for the ruling political party to thwart Ghanaians’ will, the Ellembelle lawmaker argued, should not be taken lightly and poses a threat to national security.
In a leaked audio that surfaced earlier this week, a politician who also identified as a former Northern regional chairman of the ruling NPP and a police commissioner discussed how to get rid of IGP Dr. George Akuffo Dampare because he is too firm and won’t allow the 2024 election to be rigged.
