I Don’t Have Any Working Relationship With Bugri Naabu – IGP Dampare

The Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, has refuted claims of having a working relationship with the former Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bugri Naabu.

Mr. Bugri Naabu, in a secret tape, revealed that there had been several dealings between him and 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) and junior police officers working under the instruction of the IGP.

On the secret recording to oust the IGP, Mr Naabu confessed that the IGP instructed the police to set up recording devices in his office at Osu.

The agenda was to set up 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 and a third police officer, Superintendent Emmanuel Gyebi, have been implicated and further interdicted in the leaked IGP tape controversy that has engulfed the nation.

Also, 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.

However, appearing before the parliamentary committee probing the leaked tape plotting his removal from office on Tuesday, September 12, Dr Akuffo Dampare said he has no working relationship and did not work together with Bugri Naabu to record the police officers secretly.

“I have no working relationship with Bugri Naabu,” Dr. Dampare said.

Earlier, the committee chairman, Samuel Atta-Akyea, indicated that the hearing would be in-camera.

He insisted that there were issues in the hearing that needed to be prevented from coming out in the public to protect national security.

But this modality changed today as the IGP insisted he wanted to respond publicly.