Daniel Bugri Naabu, the former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has admitted that he hired someone to record the conversation on the tape that was released and allegedly contained a conspiracy to assassinate Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, the Inspector General of Police.

Appearing before the 7-member Parliamentary Committee looking into the leaked audio, Mr. Bugri Naabu explained why he hired a third party.

“I didn’t do it myself but I requested somebody who knows how to do the recording to come and do it for me. I didn’t use a phone I went to the mall and got this ordinary tape,” he revealed.

Mr Naabu explained that he recorded the conversation with the three high-ranking police officers because of how crucial the issues being discussed were and also to have evidence to present to the president.

The former NPP Northern regional chairman identified the three Police officers as Commander Asare, COP Mensah and Superintendent Gyebi

Mr. Bugri Naabu further said the conversation had taken place within the confines of his office located in Osu, near the Osu Police Station.

He also said he intended to submit the audio to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in order to address the officers’ worries about the party’s future under the leadership of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr. George Akuffo Dampare.

“The reason for recording this tape is that they are coming to tell me to go and tell the President something…and it is either I don’t go to tell the President and then I and my party suffer for it and if I also go to talk to the President, it is good to tell him the right thing and since I cannot keep everything they were telling me at that point, it was very good to record, and I know the President, [if] I go and tell him something, and it turns not to be true, next time he won’t give me respect,” Mr. Naabu said when he appeared before the Committee set up to probe the tape.