Atta Akyea states that the committee might consider permitting witnesses to question each other
Samuel Atta Akyea, the chairman of the parliamentary committee conducting an inquiry into the leaked audio recording regarding the plot to remove the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has stated that the committee is contemplating the possibility of allowing witnesses to cross-examine each other.
“We are looking at it critically,” Atta Akyea said in an interview. “Why not, at the end of the day here you are for the first time you are facing your accuser. What questions do you want to ask your accuser? And who will run away from the one who is trying to embarrass him without asking him very pertinent questions which will inure to his innocence.”
“So, these are the areas that we are looking at critically and then we might want to say that well go ahead and ask him all the questions in the world and when you have any counter-viewing evidence bring it across,” he added.
Additionally, the committee has summoned National Security Minister Kan Dapaah to appear before it on Wednesday for further investigations. The former Northern Regional Chairman of the NPP, Bugri Naabu, has also been requested to reappear before the committee on Wednesday, September 13.
At the conclusion of the proceedings, Mr. Akyea emphasized that all witnesses should return on Wednesday accompanied by their legal representatives to continue the hearings.
He stated, “The witnesses should come back tomorrow with their lawyers. The IGP should come with his lawyers, the Minister of National Security should show up with his lawyers and proceedings will continue.”
