Fraud and Security Consultant Richard Kumador has backed the Inspector General of Police (IGP)’s statement calling on politicians to concentrate on their politicking and allow the police to also concentrate on its policing work.
The Police Administration has told the two main political parties, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to concentrate on their politicking and allow the police to also concentrate on its work.
At a meeting on Monday (April 17, 2023) with the leadership of both political parties in attendance, they were told by the police that with a number of policing interventions in place, “they should do their politics and allow the Police to do policing.”
The NDC and the NPP had petitioned the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service over alleged inciteful comments made by leading members of both parties.
While the NPP called for the arrest, investigation, and prosecution of former President John Dramani Mahama and the National Chairman of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah for what the party described as “treasonable and offensive conduct”, the NDC petitioned the CID to, with immediate effect, arrest and prosecute the Minister of Food and Agriculture, Bryan Acheampong, for making comments to the party said had the potential to subvert the will of the people of Ghana in the 2024 elections.
The NPP made the call in a petition signed by the National Organiser of the party, Henry Nana Boakye, and addressed to the Director-General of the CID of the GPS.
Speaking on Ahotor Fm, Fraud and Security Consultant Richard Kumador backed the IGP urging the two main political parties to allow the IGP to work independently.
“Once the NDC is calling for the arrest of an NPP member and the NPP also wants someone in the NDC arrested, it sets the IGP against one of them.
So if the IGP is saying he should be allowed to do his work, it doesn’t mean he will not act he will do that in his own way, it shouldn’t be that a politician is forcing the IGP to act before he acts.
IGP is the law and the law is the IGP so once politicians come in, it changes everything and that shouldn’t be the way, the way is, IGP should work independently” he said.
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Story by: Emmanuel Romeo Tetteh / Ahotoronline.com
