In a video recording that was leaked, Bugri Naabu, the former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), acknowledged working for the Ghana Police Service.
He claims that in order to encourage him to work harder, the law enforcement agency pays him because he acts as an informant.
In the video that has been circulating online, an unnamed person claimed that Naabu was employed by Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, the Inspector-General of Police.
“Chairman … you told us that you are not getting anything with Dampare and we made our investigation, Dampare is paying you… he is paying you GH₵10,000,” the individual suggested to Naabu.
Then, in an effort to clear the air, he denied the charge and said that, rather than the IGP, it is the Ghana Police Service that pays him.
“Don’t tell me that he pays me GH₵10,000; he doesn’t pay me, it’s the police… I don’t know, I receive GH₵10,000 from the police and they tell me the security work I do as a paramount chief… when there is a problem I report to them,” Naabu said.
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— UTV Ghana (@utvghana) September 8, 2023
The third recording to be leaked comes after two others, the first of which is currently being looked into by parliament.
In the two videos that were leaked, some senior police officers were pleading with Bugri Naabu for help in ousting the current IGP.
The police administration detained the officers who were mentioned in the leaked recording of a plot to remove the IGP on Thursday, September 8, 2023.
“The Police Service has interdicted Commissioner of Police (COP) Mr George Alex Mensah, Superintendent Mr Emmanuel Eric Gyebi and Superintendent Mr George Lysander Asare in connection with the audio tape which has become a subject matter of investigation by Parliament.
“The interdiction is to make way for disciplinary proceedings into their conduct in line with Police Service regulations,” the police said in a statement.
The police again issued a release to suspend the officers’ interdiction the following day, on Friday, September 8, 2023, claiming that doing so would jeopardize the ongoing investigation by the parliamentary ad hoc committee.
