Prof Gyampo – Akufo-Addo must act on leaked tape if he isn’t considering Dampare’s removal

A political scientist at the University of Ghana, Prof Ransford Gyampo, is calling on the Akufo-Addo government to address the damning revelations made in a leaked audio about Ghana’s police chief.

The said secret audio, detailed an alleged plot by persons suspected to be high-ranking officials of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and a top member of the Ghana Police Service to remove the current Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, from office ahead of the 2024 elections.

The unidentified individuals involved in the recorded conversation expressed frustration over the IGP’s alleged reluctance to align the police force’s activities with the interests of the ruling party.

They raised concerns about his leadership style and rumoured association with the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).

“I know there are others who are also good for this position. If I don’t get and this man is changed and those people that we think are our men get it, [I will be happy]… Because we need to break this 8. That is important, we need to break the 8… Because I wouldn’t want a doctor to become the flagbearer and then we lose the elections,” one of the men who is reportedly a police officer in the audio is heard saying.

As a result, they concluded that achieving the NPP’s ‘Breaking the 8’ agenda, would be impossible with Dampare as the head of the police.

But Prof Gyampo believes that if the development is anything to go by, the government must shelf any ideas in that direction.

He wrote on Facebook that the President to show decisive action on the recording to show that he is not contemplating any such plan.

“It would be politically suicidal for the NPP as a Party and the Akufo-Addo government to think about removing the IGP for being too competent. But if this is not their thinking, why can’t they swiftly dissociate themselves from the rumours?” Prof Gyampo wrote on Tuesday.

Source – myjoyonline.com