The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Dampare Akuffo, is saddened by wild allegations made against him by senior police officers in connection to the leaked audio and plot to oust him from office.
According to him, those claims have caused severe pain to his personality and his family across the country.
COP George Mensah, a senior police officer implicated in a plot to remove the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare told the ad-hoc parliamentary committee probing the issue on Friday, September 1, 2023. that the IGP orchestrated the recording of the leaked tape and has the original copy.
He said he believed the audio currently before the parliamentary committee is heavily doctored.
But speaking before the committee on Tuesday, September 12, an emotional IGP Dampare denied those allegations.
He said the allegations which lack evidence, negatively affected the reputation of his family and the entire police service.
“Instead of them to focus on the matter, they came out with wild allegations, that touched my person, the police leadership that I lead, and the entirety of the police service. Until today I’m now being told that they have some evidence. Without a shred of evidence, at the time that they were making the allegations, not a shred of evidence.
“Those wild allegations without a shred of evidence have brought a lot of pain to me, my family across the country, and especially my wife and children. The pain also to my team, my command, and thousands of police personnel. I, an innocent person focusing on my job and working with my team to keep the country safe, have to be called here to answer unsubstantiated claims. This is just not fair, are we killing patriotism that anybody can just wake up and make allegations?” the IGP bemoaned.
Damopare noted that the respect he has for President Akufo-Addo and the police service made him appear before the committee to answer the allegations levelled against him.
“I’m here I have no choice, I’m doing this because of the respect I have for myself, my family especially my wife and children, and for the respect, I have for institutions of state, and more importantly the respect I have for the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, and the respect I have for Ghanaians. I’m here to answer all your questions, on wild allegations by my brothers,” Dampare asserted.
When he appeared before the committee, Daniel Bugri Naabu, the former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), revealed that he recorded the controversial leaked tape which captured a plot to remove the Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, to protect his party.
