Retired Assistant Commissioner of Police, Benjamin Agordzo, has accused the Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, of exhibiting autocratic tendencies and engaging in heavy arbitrariness.
In a recent interview on Neat FM, ACP Agordzo said some officers have sadly become victims of Dr. Dampare, whom he also accused of being vindictive.
“There is a cult system in the police service where whoever he does not like is in trouble. On the other hand, those he likes can be promoted a hundred times in a year. He can lift you from a junior to a senior position immediately, and he can promote you twice or three times in one year or two years. That is the kind of system we have,” he stated.
He alleged that the IGP, as a result of his vindictiveness, has gone as far as transferring some officers who attended a funeral with the current Executive Director of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), COP Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, without recourse to the Transfer Board of the Ghana Police Service.
“It is a system that if he doesn’t like someone and you associate with the person, he will transfer you right away. That is who the IGP is, and I can give you names. Names like Ayisi, Adjei, and other people who went to a funeral with Madam Tiwaa. Because they attended a funeral with Madam Tiwaa, they have been transferred from the base to the remotest part of Ghana,” he stated.
ACP Agordzo was freed by a High Court after standing trial on charges of being an accomplice in a coup plot.
Following his acquittal and discharge, ACP Agordzo has written a book titled “From Prosecution to Freedom: Reflections on My Journey Through the Justice System in Ghana,” detailing his custody and trial experience.
Listen to ACP Agordzo below:
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