Host of Metro TV’s Good Evening Ghana programme, Paul Adom-Otchere, has accused the Inspector General of Police (IGP), George Akuffo Dampare of creating an elite unit within the Ghana Police Service.
He alleged that the said unit is embedded in the Police Intelligence Department (PID) and report strictly to the IGP.
The unit, he said, must be disbanded immediately because of the potential repercussions that could arise from having such a force in operation.
Citing unnamed informants within the service, Adom Otchere said, “The PID is being used by Dr. Dampare to empower a certain elite police group and they do anything and nobody can talk to them and they talk only to the IGP.
He cited the instance of a reported habeas corpus application against the police in the Northern Region over the reported killing of five young men in November 2022 as the handiwork reportedly of this ‘elite force’ before expressing concerns over Dampare having centralized police communications nationwide.
He made the allegation in the July 13 edition of his show.
Adom-Otchere called on the powers that be to probe the allegation.
“When I hear that an IGP is creating an elite group in the police, I know that it is particularly wrong and the Ministry of Interior, the Office of the President should not countenance that. The police are the police, every police officer is a police officer, let’s not create any anything,” he stressed.
He cited the Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah’s own guard led by General Bawa and the 64 Infantry Battalion of JJ Rawlings eras as Special Forces that have historically been threats to the regular armies.
“We shouldn’t have a PID that feels better than another police man. That is so dangerous and this is what we are hearing that is happening in the police,” he added.
Speaking on the viral leaked tape plotting Dampare’s removal, Adom-Otchere said the president supports Dampare and would not change him.
“Nobody wants to change Dr. Dampare even Akufo-Addo will not. When his MPs said change Ken Ofori-Atta did he change him? We are still here. Ken Ofori-Atta has won a major success by delivering the IMF, nobody is going to change him,” he added.
