Bugri Naabu confesses to being used by IGP to set up senior police officers

Former Northern Regional Chairman of the NPP, Daniel Bugri Naabu, has exposed The Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare in a secret tape available to The Ghana Report.

This latest revelation has lifted the lid on several dealings by the IGP in Ghana’s police force.

In various meetings and discussions captured on video, Mr. Naabu made references to schemes between him, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dampare and junior police officers working under the instruction of the IGP.

In one of the tapes, Mr. Naabu confessed that the IGP instructed police to set up recording devices in his office at Osu.

The agenda was to setup and record some police officers who had gone to Mr. Naabu to express dissenting opinions about the IGP and his activities at the police headquarters.

One of the missions to be accomplished with these devices was to capture recordings of former Director General of Operations of the Ghana Police Service, COP Alex Mensah and Superintendent George Asare at their blind side.

The two, together with a third police officer, Superintendent Emmanuel Gyebi, have been implicated and further interdicted in the leaked IGP tape controversy that has engulfed the nation.

In one of the recordings, Bugri Naabu said: “Commander Asare. He is one of the people who came to complain…I wanted to record with my phone, but I don’t know how to operate the phone. So I told Police Headquarters that I don’t know how to operate the thing. I called the IGP and IGP came and spoke on what they were doing. I told him that they said they will come and meet me so he sent somebody. The person came and put recorders. He came and picked it from the police headquarters”.

This development raises more questions about Dampare and his leadership at the Ghana Police Service.

Dr. George Akuffo Dampare has come under heavy criticism lately for his fame-seeking adventures, with a section of the public describing his actions as populist.

Some security analysts have also questioned information flow between the police and the public as district, divisional and regional commanders are not permitted to speak to the media or update the public about criminal cases within their jurisdictions.

Recently, over 80 police officers who were not promoted by the Ghana Police Service filed a lawsuit and dragged the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) to court over unfair treatment.

On the last day of the hearings by the parliamentary committee, Superintendent Asare alleged that the IGP had signed off a contract for the supply of 40,000 boots, a claim corroborated by Bugri Naabu in one of the secret tapes