Superintendent George Asare, one of the police officers implicated in the “IGP leaked” tape saga, has surfaced in another secretly recorded video allegedly instigating the removal of the national police chief George Akuffo Dampare from office.
An ad hoc committee of Parliament is investigating Asare and two others – the former director general (technical) of the Ghana Police Service, COP George Alex Mensah and the former Northern regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Daniel Bugri Naabu – over the leaked tape.
The trio allegedly had a discussion in Naabu’s office in Osu to hatch a plot to remove IGP Dampare.
In the new video, Supt Asare was captured having a conversation in what is believed to be the office of Bugri Naabu, making a strong case for the removal of his national boss.
The eight-minute-long secret video captured Supt Asare having the conversation with someone at the background believed to be Naabu. He was heard making a series of claims against IGP Dampare including accusing him of being responsible for the NPP’s defeat in the Assin North by-election.
Below is transcript of part of the conversation capture in the video:
Asare: I said, send this man away. What did you do? The President is aware; they have gone to complain to him.
Bugri: …I am telling you; everything will be okay.
Asare: When is he going? He is delaying.
Bugri: Before August.
Asare: Why August? What is in August?
Bugri: He said I should bring…
Asare: But you haven’t sent them. When is he going? He is delaying. This is not about somebody telling a lie; this is what happened at Assin North.
The Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, set up the committee for a thorough forensic audit to be carried out to unravel those behind the tape.
Meanwhile, the government has strongly refuted allegations of a clandestine scheme to oust the Inspector General of Police prior to the 2024 general elections.
“The government has no plan to sack the IGP and we are sure that nothing will be allowed to disturb the peace from now till 2024,” the Interior Minister Ambrose Dery said when the tape was leaked in July.
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