IGP Leaked Tape: See details of committee report on how Supt. Asare, Supt. Gyebi lied under oath

The parliamentary committee probing the leaked tape, in which three senior police officers were plotting the removal of the Inspector-General of Police, George Akuffo Dampare, has indicted the officers involved for perjury.

GhanaWeb has now sighted excerpts of a draft copy of the committee's report, which shows how two of the officers, Superintendent George Lysander Asare and Superintendent Emmanuel Gyebi, lied under oath during their testimony before the committee.

Superintendent Gyebi lied under oath when he appeared before the committee for the first time on August 31, 2023.

"Supt Gyebi, during his testimony under oath on August 31, 2023, denied ever speaking to Chief Bugri Naabu directly on his phone or on the phone of Supt Asare. However, when he appeared before the Committee again on October 10, 2023, he changed his earlier testimony and affirmed that he indeed spoke to Chief Bugri Naabu on the phone," part of the report reads.

The report quoted the senior police officer as follows: "And the question I quote 'have you ever spoken to someone on Supt Asare's phone who claims to be Bugri Naabu?' And the answer I gave is incorrect. I answered no and I want to change it to yes."

For Superintendent Lysander Asare, the report indicated that the senior officer lied about his presence during a phone call between Superintendent Gyebi and Chief Bugri Naabu, a former Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who is at the centre of the leaked tape.

"Supt Asare also, in answering a question under oath posed by Hon Peter Lanchene Toobu on September 4, 2023, on whether he was present when Chief Bugri Naabu spoke to Supt Eric Emmanuel Gyebi on the phone, he responded in the negative. However, he changed his initial response to this question to the affirmative when he appeared before the Committee on October 10, 2023."

He is also quoted as having said, "Hon Chairman, I want to change my answer to 'I was there when they spoke' because that time the question was not all that straightforward."

The committee found the officers in contempt of Parliament pursuant to Order 30 of the Standing Orders of Parliament (2000) as revised by Order 31 (f) of the Standing Orders of Parliament (2024).

See the report below:

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