Ex-Police Officer testifies before NRC

Ex-Chief Superintendent of Police Samuel Adjepong Okyere, on Tuesday petitioned the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) sitting in Accra, to be reinstated into the Ghana Police Service or be paid all allowances and benefits owed him by the Service.

The former police officer, a Mechanical Engineer told the Commission of his unlawful dismissal from the Service in 1983, accused of inefficiency.


He said the accusation was a ploy to get him out of the Service because he had established, and been in direct supervision of a number of Police workshops in Cape Coast, Kumasi and the Police Headquarters in Accra.


"I entered the Service with a rank of Constable Class One in 1962, and rose to the position of Chief Superintendent, and for the 21 years that I worked with the Service, I was never brought before any disciplinary committee for any form of negligence, Mr Okyere said.

He said under police regulations, an officer had to appear before a disciplinary board and had the chance to explain his position on an accusation before a premature retirement or dismissal is effected but that had never happened to him before he was dismissed on September 2, 1983.


The audience, including some of the commissioners fanned themselves with sheets of paper to cool themselves from the heat in the hall, as the ex-cop narrated unsuccessful attempts he made to seek redress from several quarters.