IGP Set To Go?

The Inspector general of Police (IGP), Mr Patrick K. Acheampong, must certainly be a worried, disappointed man. As the head of Ghana’s Police Service, he is virtually supervising over an administration tainted with allegations of corruption and recent reports of alleged police involvement in narcotic deals. The Ghanaian Voice can report that last Friday, Mr Acheampong made clear his intention of resigning to the Chief of Staff at the office of the President. A source at the Office of the Chief of Staff told newsmen that the IGP’s communication to the office of the Chief of Staff was verbal.

According to source, the IGP was however advised to hold on his decision, pending the outcome of the Georgina Wood Committee that is currently investigating the disappearance of 200 metric tones of cocaine from a vessel at the Tema. The Ghanaian Voice can however report that Mr Acheampong will tender in his resignation letter by the end of this month. “He is simply a disturbed man and the information from the Office of the Chief of Staff indicates his intention to resign from the service,” our source said of the IGP.

The Ghana Police Service has recently been hit by reports that some police officers were involved in the surprise disappearance of 2000 metric tones of cocaine from a vessel of the Tema Port. Some senior police officers, including the Director-General in charge of Operations, ACP Kofi Boakye, have also been accused of holding secret meetings with the suspected drug leaders at this residence.

As if reports of police involvement in the disappearance of the 200 metric tones of cocaine was not enough, Detective Sergeant Peter Kweku Annobil rubbed salt into the already injured wound of the IGP and his men when he accused his superiors of stealing thee kilograms of cocaine and a mini-sack of the Indian hemp and other assorted quantities of narcotic drugs being kept as exhibits at the La police station.