IGP’s service extension stirs confusion in service

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papa yaw 12 years ago

THE IGP WHO WOULD NEED THE EXTENTION OF TIME IS THE ONE WHO WOULD WEED OUT CORRUPTION IN THE MTTU AND THE CID TAKING BAIL MONIES.PRESENT IGP WAS FAVOURED BY NANFURI.NOT ALL OFFICERS HAD SOMEONE TO DO THIS FOR THEM . ASK HIM A ...
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THE IGP WHO WOULD NEED THE EXTENTION OF TIME IS THE ONE WHO WOULD WEED OUT CORRUPTION IN THE MTTU AND THE CID TAKING BAIL MONIES.PRESENT IGP WAS FAVOURED BY NANFURI.NOT ALL OFFICERS HAD SOMEONE TO DO THIS FOR THEM . ASK HIM AND HE WOULD NOT DENY. HE DID NOT GET THE UNO APPOINTMENT ON MERIT
we dont want topmoller 12 years ago

IF THIS SHAPELSS FAT MAN IS AN IGP THEN GHANA NEEDS HELP.

IF THIS SHAPELSS FAT MAN IS AN IGP THEN GHANA NEEDS HELP.
Omanhene(U$A) 12 years ago

Ghanaian politicians and government officials are still, in the 21st century, operating with Biblical Moses' time and an Archaic CIVIL Service codes, regulations, policies and some doggone silly modalities. Why have politicia ...
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Ghanaian politicians and government officials are still, in the 21st century, operating with Biblical Moses' time and an Archaic CIVIL Service codes, regulations, policies and some doggone silly modalities. Why have politicians hanging on through 70 years, but retiring strong and well trained police officers and school teachers at 60?? That’s monumentally INSANE, NEGROES!!

WHY continue to use the retirement age put in place by Mr. BOBO (White man) some 70 years ago?? Today, people live longer, are healthier, eat well, have good sanitation, moderately good health care, etc., etc., which the White man didn't have in those days—and that’s why they set the age at 60.

Several countries, including the mighty United States of America, don't have this foolishness to rob them of QUALIFIED, TALENTED, SKILLED, EXPERIENCED, INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE, MENTORS, and some GREY HAIR to laugh and to look up to on the job.

So, Ghanaian officials, just RE-WORK the retirement age for all CIVIL SERVANTS from 60 to 65 or 70. In America, I can retire to receive my retirement benefits only at AGE 66 and not at 60. Why are we robbing ourselves of hardworking GOOD PEOPLE, because of some age-old stupid law propagated by Mr. BOBO? Amanfuo, if time changes, you better change your damn system to fit in.
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KOFFI 12 years ago

Well said Omanhene,but the question is whether our dumb legislature would take this on board! This very issue had been discussed in the past with many working Ghanaians rooting for the retiring age to be pegged at age 65 at l ...
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Well said Omanhene,but the question is whether our dumb legislature would take this on board! This very issue had been discussed in the past with many working Ghanaians rooting for the retiring age to be pegged at age 65 at least. As usual and characteristic of the Ghananian, nothing concrete has been done about it while we continue to lose experienced brains both in the public, civil and security services all to the detriment of national progress. Had the proposal been carried on board , we would not be having some people murmuring about present happening as in the cases of some security personnel including the sitting IGP. Over to you our Legislators and at least for once be pro-active to such a pertinent issue that border on national progress.
Marquis 12 years ago

I am of the opinion that this is not a subject that must come under your microscope. This bothers on the security of the nation. if the Police Council deemed it fit to extend the IGP,s stray in office then it is because they ...
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I am of the opinion that this is not a subject that must come under your microscope. This bothers on the security of the nation. if the Police Council deemed it fit to extend the IGP,s stray in office then it is because they have found in him somebody to complete the reformations he started. All those Snr police Officers who are not happy can dutifully resign their positions and leave the Service. They are not been forced to stay. Do you want to lead a mutiny against the Council? They must be men to cone out and say it and not hide behind you to do their biding.
Frank Agyena-Karikari 12 years ago

You are wrong. We have to avoid a situation where officers and civil servants continue to stay in office. Every reform is started by someone and if not completed, has to be continued by someone else. The reason given for the ...
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You are wrong. We have to avoid a situation where officers and civil servants continue to stay in office. Every reform is started by someone and if not completed, has to be continued by someone else. The reason given for the extension of his time in office as a bad precedent. What real reforms is he carrying out? The police still remains the same. Bribe collection as usual
KING 12 years ago

BE STRAIT ON THE POINT, KWESI, IS JUST
TRIBAL FAVOURITISM, PERIOD

BE STRAIT ON THE POINT, KWESI, IS JUST
TRIBAL FAVOURITISM, PERIOD
concerned top police officer 12 years ago

the government should not give in to anybody born of a woman who incites any mutiny in the police service because of this development. is that the first time this kind of development had happened in the police? have they forg ...
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the government should not give in to anybody born of a woman who incites any mutiny in the police service because of this development. is that the first time this kind of development had happened in the police? have they forgotten that there is a provision in the police act mandating this?. those irresponsible top officers wanting to take the whole country to ransom should find out the punishment for mutiny. in the military the ultimate punishment is death by firing squad after been court marshaled . we know all those npp infested top officers behind this agitation. when dr abrefa busia became the prime minister after bloody generals kotoka and Afrifa cleared Kwame Nkrumah and paved the easy way for him, he re-called a C/Inspector Ampaw from the united kingdom who had retired from the police for so many years and made him the inspector general of police instantly until general Acheampong booted them out of power in 1972. former president jj rawlings also re-called commissioner of police, ss omane from retirement and appointed him as the igp. all these happened but Ghana did not experience what some of the top officers, most of whom have reduced their ages, are alleged to be agitating. if they don't like this current action taken by the government, they should just do the honorable thing by resigning. the police is not their personal property. their political party can re-call by emulating what their mentor and political tin-god dr abrefa busia did in the 60s. is the current igp the only retired officer who had been contract? we have millions of them in the past and current.
concerned top police officer 12 years ago

correction' their political party can re-call them by emulating what their"
" is the current igp the only retired officer who had been given contract or extension of service? "

correction' their political party can re-call them by emulating what their"
" is the current igp the only retired officer who had been given contract or extension of service? "
Offei 12 years ago

You are fool to recommending sack an action for the wrongful retention of this oversized man for the IGP post. Do you remember Alhassan's predecessor retired a couple of months before his time was due? If he had chosen to als ...
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You are fool to recommending sack an action for the wrongful retention of this oversized man for the IGP post. Do you remember Alhassan's predecessor retired a couple of months before his time was due? If he had chosen to also lobby before his retirement to get another 2 or 4 years where would Alhassan have been by now? I can tell you the police service have better qualified officers than Alhassan presently who would have filled that post with enough competency rather than ride on the lines of favouritism that will in the long run have dangerous repercussions for the police service and the country as a whole. Fire burn y'all.

TAMBRO 12 years ago

OFFEI,YOU ARE RATHER A STUPID ENTITY WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE WRIGHTING ABOUT.WHAT DOES THE FEATURES OF THE IGP GOT TO DO WITH HIS PERFORMANCE IF HE IS THE RIGHT GUY FOR THE JOB.I THINK HIS TERM SHOULD EVEN BE EXTENDED TO ...
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OFFEI,YOU ARE RATHER A STUPID ENTITY WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE WRIGHTING ABOUT.WHAT DOES THE FEATURES OF THE IGP GOT TO DO WITH HIS PERFORMANCE IF HE IS THE RIGHT GUY FOR THE JOB.I THINK HIS TERM SHOULD EVEN BE EXTENDED TO 4 YRS INSTEAD OF THE 2YRS.
concerned police officer 12 years ago

I am sure you are one of those characters who have dented the image of the police from the days of the npp
by indulging in the traffic of illicit drugs and also allowing cocaine to grow wings and fly out of exhibit room at ...
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I am sure you are one of those characters who have dented the image of the police from the days of the npp
by indulging in the traffic of illicit drugs and also allowing cocaine to grow wings and fly out of exhibit room at the police headquarters. you also lied about the former lazy igp quaye. quaye did not go on volunteraly. he was asked to take his terminal leave and leave. just continue to be doing npp politics in the service.shame on you an elephant!
Marquis 12 years ago

Did you or anyone complain when NPP brought in is it Agyeman Duah who was past 60 as the Controller and Accountant General? They saw in him somebody to work with. To all those cowards hiding behind Kwesi Pratt, they must do t ...
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Did you or anyone complain when NPP brought in is it Agyeman Duah who was past 60 as the Controller and Accountant General? They saw in him somebody to work with. To all those cowards hiding behind Kwesi Pratt, they must do the right thing and resign honorably if they are not happy. After all we can have only 1 IGP at a time. What have they ever done to help redeem the image of the Service I their time with the Service?
Kwesi Agbenu 12 years ago

Kwesi Pratt vitriolic attacks on Kufuor government have dimmed under Mills and Mahama governments.His strawweight attack on Mahama this time around is just AYEBIAHWE----- very loose, very mundane

Kwesi Pratt vitriolic attacks on Kufuor government have dimmed under Mills and Mahama governments.His strawweight attack on Mahama this time around is just AYEBIAHWE----- very loose, very mundane
Kwame 12 years ago

Anyone employed by the Ghana Police Service is a civil servant. A civil servant who reached the retiring age and is on contract can not be the head of a department or section that he served before the retirement. He can also ...
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Anyone employed by the Ghana Police Service is a civil servant. A civil servant who reached the retiring age and is on contract can not be the head of a department or section that he served before the retirement. He can also not earn the same salary he or she was put on before retirement, when he or she is on contract.
The above is state in the Civil Service Act, therefore the Police Council can not maintain a person who is on retirement as the head of that institution, but can employ him or her on contract and an adviser to the Inspector General of Police.
The current Inspector General of Police, Mr. Mohammed Ahmed Alhassan has done what some of us have been writing about on the web for sometime, that is stationing policemen at all major road intersections and making the police visible as is the case in most developed countries.
However the extension of his appointment goes contrary to the law and that must be looked at.
A former employee of MELCOM has sued the company clamming that the compensation, meaning that the lump sum compensation paid to him was against the Workmen's Compensation Law, 1987 (P.N.D.C.L.187).
The Minister responsible for Labour and Social Welfare can only appoint a medical board if in case one which has been appointed by the employer and the injured workman has not satisfied the expectations of any of the parties.
Whenever a worker is not satisfied with a percentage awarded by a medical officer appointed by the employer he or she shall report the matter to the Labour Officer in charge of Workmen Compensation, who forward the complaint to the Chief Labour Officer who request for a Medical Board to be set up by the Ministry of Health to examine the injured workman.
We do not know the injury of the workman in the case, but it seems that his permanent incapacity was low, thus attracted not what he now pretend was the case. Injured workmen should know that compensation is paid only when your injury is healed and if there are to be any correction like plastic surgery are completed. There was the case of an injured workman who had a final medical report submitted to the Labour Department, however upon examination by the Labour Officer it was detected that some substance was still coming out of the wound that has not healed. The Labour Officer ordered the medical office to cancel that final medical report and the injured workman's injury got healed 8 months after the order.
The injured workman in this case had an agreement with the employer to accept the lump sum compensation under the law. After testifying that he or she understand the terms of the agreement in his mother language or English, if he is well educated the lump sum compensation was paid to him.
We are not aware if morning devotion was part of the employee's duties. If that is not the case the employer has all right to refuse liability, since the matter is now out of the Act under which the two parties entered the agreement and the lump sum was paid.
Now the injured workman has to prove, that the sum paid or to be paid under the agreement was not in accordance with the provisions of the subsection (1) of section15, or that the agreement was entered into in ignorance, or under a mistake as the cause of injury, or that the agreement was obtained by such fraud, misrepresentation or other means as would, in law, be sufficient grounds for rendering it null and void.
The workman having decided not to fall under the law has to prove the negligence of the employer and the employer also has to prove if the employee at the time of the accident was acting contrary to the employment and safety regulations.
AHMED OSMANU 12 years ago

Northerners all the way.

Northerners all the way.
Hebert, Sweden 12 years ago

Senseless, Journalists, Officers, and the People of Ghana. Why should the officers grumble? They are serving the Nation, and must accept any changes which suits the Nation or resign and go. Why should Security matters be disc ...
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Senseless, Journalists, Officers, and the People of Ghana. Why should the officers grumble? They are serving the Nation, and must accept any changes which suits the Nation or resign and go. Why should Security matters be discussed by an ordinary persons not in the of the Service. Ghanaians, learn what Democracy and Freedom of Speeches are.
AMA 12 years ago

Not good for morale, especially for others working hard to move up. Not fair.

Not good for morale, especially for others working hard to move up. Not fair.
CASTRO 12 years ago

AT THE LEAST THIS GUY IS MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE THOSE BASTARDS WORK. PUT HIM ON. GHANA POLICE ARE LAZY DUMB AND CORRUPT. HE IS TRYING TO MAKE CHANGES. NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS WEIGHT OR TRIBE. THEY DON'T LIKE HIM BECAUSE OF ...
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AT THE LEAST THIS GUY IS MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO MAKE THOSE BASTARDS WORK. PUT HIM ON. GHANA POLICE ARE LAZY DUMB AND CORRUPT. HE IS TRYING TO MAKE CHANGES. NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS WEIGHT OR TRIBE. THEY DON'T LIKE HIM BECAUSE OF THAT.
kweku adu 12 years ago

I used to like the objectivity of this kwesi pratt but I am disappointed he is making me to believe what I have been hearing about him. that he is an alarmist and had also inculcated the habit of inciting some people against ...
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I used to like the objectivity of this kwesi pratt but I am disappointed he is making me to believe what I have been hearing about him. that he is an alarmist and had also inculcated the habit of inciting some people against any government in power. why, has he ever been a police man before? why is he now turning his ugly searchlight on the police this time around? he should know that the police institution like any other government institution is operated based on their service instructions. it is not run like media houses. what kwesi is doing is to push some top police officers into trouble. he is only inciting some police officers mutinied against authority and this can lead to the dismissal of any officer who foolishly go by his incitement. he should pull the breaks now before the unexpected happens.

kweku adu 12 years ago

my friend, it is not the size of the body that decides who should be an IGP. in the past we had different kinds of gentlemen who became IGP. some were tall,short,ugly and what not. it is the brain, intelligent, professionalis ...
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my friend, it is not the size of the body that decides who should be an IGP. in the past we had different kinds of gentlemen who became IGP. some were tall,short,ugly and what not. it is the brain, intelligent, professionalism and integrity that matter. I think you envy the current IGP. I also believe that you are a thin person who had contracted the HIV virus. shame on you!
Akos Connecticut 12 years ago

He is 60 ,he should retire...as you did to Paul Quaye so be it. no tribal favour...if his services are good he should retire and open a consultancy for the govt

He is 60 ,he should retire...as you did to Paul Quaye so be it. no tribal favour...if his services are good he should retire and open a consultancy for the govt
Papa Yaw 12 years ago

No

No
Kan Na wo 12 years ago

The compolsory retirement age for every pulic officer is 60 years.He should go home or I will send the case to court.

The compolsory retirement age for every pulic officer is 60 years.He should go home or I will send the case to court.
Kakut 12 years ago

Yes Prat seems to be right. I heard extension for duties for men with particular traits only ie the following,Hamidu,Yakubu,akologo,mohammed,mumuni etc. A bad precedence oh Ghana.

Yes Prat seems to be right. I heard extension for duties for men with particular traits only ie the following,Hamidu,Yakubu,akologo,mohammed,mumuni etc. A bad precedence oh Ghana.

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