Another police officer resigns to contest NDC primaries

A 35-year-old Police officer with the Akropong District Command has resigned from the Ghana Police Service to contest the upcoming National Democratic Congress(NDC) Parliamentary primaries.

Detective Corporal John Evans Ayerakwa-Kumordzi, an officer with the Criminal Investigative Department of the Ghana Police Service tendered in his resignation letter to the Inspector General of Police(IGP) sometime in February this year.

According to him, his decision to contest on the ticket of the NDC is to serve the people in his constituency.

“I have been in the Police Service for eleven years, I was posted to the Okere constituency right after training school and so I have worked here for 11 good years. I have been with the people for a very long time and I know their challenges. I think this is the right time for me to lead the constituency to help them have a better living condition,” he said.

The former police officer is hopeful of winning the primaries and subsequently recapture the Okere Constituency seat which was a stronghold of the NDC in 1992 until 2001 when the ruling New Patriotic Party won and occupies till date with the incumbent Member of Parliament Dan Kwaku Botwe.

Corporal John Ayerawa-Kumordzi is among three other Parliamentary hopefuls who have picked the nomination forms to contest the Primaries in the constituency.

The Ex-Police officer has also vowed to ensure that he garners enough votes for the NDC flagbearer John Mahama in the 2020 general elections.

The development comes few days after the executive secretary to the Inspector General of Police, Superintendent Peter Lanchene Tuubo, retired voluntarily from the service to contest the WA West Parliamentary primaries of the NDC.