COP Prosper Agblor addressing the media
The Police Administration has denied claims that the Inspector General of Police (IGP) John Kudalor has commanded security officers at the Ghana-Togo boarder to allow Togolese and strangers to come and vote on election day.
The Director General in-charge of Criminal Investigation Department, COP Prosper Kwami Agblor, said Mr Kudalor said at Aflao that “nobody can prevent any eligible voter from voting on polls day.”
The CID boss said the allegation is a calculated propaganda designed to discredit the integrity of the Police Service.
He said, “The IGP has no jurisdiction in Togo so as to command Togolese security officers to open their boarders.
“Dr John Kudalor is not the Controller General of the Immigration or Commissioner, Customs Division of the Ghana Revenue Authority and so cannot command officers of these two sister security institutions.”
COP Agblor claimed that intelligence available to the police indicated that more of such vilifications, false allegations and attacks were in the offing.
“The intelligence wing of the service has been tasked to look for the would-be perpetrators and pick them up for the necessary action,” he posited.
The allegation against the IGP received mixed feelings from the public and the Volta Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Amewu and Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP) appealed to Togolese not to come and vote on December 7.
Touching on the clash between some National Democratic Congress (NDC) supporters and security details of the flag bearer of the NPP, COP Agblor said the matter was still under investigation.
“Some progress has been made on the matter and at the appropriate time, it will be made public,” he said.
On the assertion by Mohammed Abdulai aka Naaba, brother of Local Government and Rural Development Minister, Collins Dauda, to the effect that he has been killing people, the CID boss said, the suspect was arrested and granted police enquiry bail on November 16, 2016; but the matter was still under investigation.
In the recent reported attack on an NPP parliamentary candidate, George Boakye, in the Asunafo South Constituency of the Brong-Ahafo Region, COP Agblor said four suspects behind the incident were arrested, put before court and remanded in prison custody.
Commenting on the attacks on the Loyal Ladies of NPP and the Electoral Commission office where some items were carried away and others destroyed at Suhum in the Eastern Region, the CID director general said the case was still under investigation.
“The cyber crime unit of the CID has been tasked to investigate and trace the origin of some audio-visuals making the rounds on social media on the IGP and the police administration,” he disclosed.
By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey
(lindatenyah@gmail.com)