COP Alex Mensah, one of many cops on the centre of the leaked tape controversy geared toward ousting the Inspector Common of Police (IGP), has questioned the credibility of a report circulating within the media relating to the work of the parliamentary committee that investigated the matter.
In response to him, he’ll solely give credence to a report signed by the Chairman of the Committee, Samuel Atta Akyea.
“We don’t want to debate this. It’s a ineffective factor that’s simply circulating. It’s a leaked report. It’s not the report. Let the report be filed on the primary Parliament. Don’t waste our time on this. I’ll solely communicate on a report that Atta Akyea has introduced to Parliament. Why didn’t the chairman signal? As a result of there’s something fallacious with the report,” he mentioned.
Final yr, Parliament arrange a committee to analyze the content material of a leaked tape referring to plans to oust IGP, Dr George Akuffo Dampare.
COP Alex George Mensah, Supt. George Lysander Asare and Supt. Emmanuel Eric Gyebi, along with former Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Celebration (NPP) Bugri Naabu have been caught on tape orchestrating the removing of the IGP.
Final week, the media intercepted a purported report of the committee.
In some way, the report was not signed by the Chairman of the Committee, Samuel Atta Akyea.
In response to the report, the vast majority of the parliamentary committee members who investigated the leaked tape saga advisable sanctions for the three officers concerned.
These members discovered that officers COP Alex George Mensah, Supt. George Lysander Asare, and Supt. Emmanuel Eric Gyebi had misconducted themselves, constituting a serious offence underneath police laws.
They advisable that these officers be sanctioned in accordance with the police disciplinary process.
They requested that the Home talk its findings to the President, consistent with Part 19 of the Police Service Act, 1970 (Act 350), to make sure acceptable sanctions are imposed.
“The Home ought to talk its findings to the President pursuant to Part 19 of the Police Service Act, 1970 (Act 350) which vests disciplinary powers within the President, to find out the suitable sanctions for COP George Alex Mensah, Supt George Lysander Asare and Supt Eric Emmanuel Gyebi who seem to have misconducted themselves professionally by breaching amongst others the next: Part 17(d) of the Police Service Act, 1970 (Act 350) which states that:
“It shall be misconduct for a police officer to have interaction in any exercise outdoors his official duties that’s prone to contain him in political controversy or result in his taking improper benefit of his place within the police service.
“Regulation 82(1) (c) of the Police Service Laws, 2012 (C.I 76) which states that: “It’s a main offence for an officer to have interaction in an exercise outdoors official duties which is prone to “Contain the officer in political controversy or result in the officer taking improper benefit of that officer’s place within the service,” the report mentioned.
Nonetheless, COP Alex Mensah mentioned that as a retired police officer, he’s not sure by police service laws.
“In the event that they need to ship it to the President, they will ship it to the President. Regardless of the President decides to do, let him do it. On the acceptable time, if we have to do one thing, we may also do it. However as I communicate, I’m not a police officer, and no policeman can name me for any disciplinary motion,” COP Mensah mentioned in an interview on 3FM.