By: Rebecca Ampah
Executive Director of the Africa Centre for Security, Emmanuel Kotin, has shared his concern about the IGP’s appearance before the Parliament’s Committee saying, further investigation must be done to clear the dilemma of whether or not the allegations made against the IGP are true in order to make the Ghana Police Service a very transparent institution.
Speaking on GBC’s Current Affairs Program ‘FOCUS’, he mentioned that, even though the allegations were made public and the IGP has been given the opportunity to respond, cross-examination should also be made publicly to clear all doubts.
“If the allegations are not true then we are all satisfied that we have a clean institution with a clean IGP and he must be supported, then we can weed out these bad nuts who are plotting to remove him, but if any of the allegations made are true, then we have a problem and we need to clean the institution,” he said.
According to him, the allegations must be investigated because it is a threat to the country to have such a Police Service, if the allegations are true.
“We can’t have an institution like the police service with any of those allegations being true,” he added.
He further mentioned that there is a cause for all these allegations, and it must be looked at as “there is no smoke without fire”.
Emmanuel Kotin is of the view that a wider scope of probe is required to ensure that the issues are interrogated properly.
