Sack IGP – Bagbin in Akufo-Addo

General News of Friday, February 15, 2019

Source: clbadfmonline.com

2019-02-15

Alban Bagbin, leader of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the main opposition party, asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to immediately dismiss the Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu. Insecurity in the country.

"Return the IGP if it is not up to par," Bagbin told Ghana's Kasa on CTV, hosted by Kwame Tutu on Friday, February 15, 2019.

He added: "If [IGP] lack of resources, then re-equip it to facilitate its operations. "

Bagbin also said that the country's entire security apparatus must have resources to fight crime effectively.

His comments follow the violence that characterized the constituency of Ayawaso West Wuogon on Thursday, January 31.

An inquiry commission chaired by a former commissioner at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Judge Emile Short, was created by the government to investigate the matter.

"Expressing on the current state of the NDC, Mr. Bagbin said that the way the Mahama administration was treating the party by neglecting its structures was something that should not happen again when it" s not going to happen again. an NDC government is in power.

"I am not satisfied with the state of the NDC and the type of services we offer," he said.

"The government of the time was not working with the party structure and if your party is not healthy, your government can not be healthy because it is the party that is turning into a government, "said the second deputy speaker of Parliament and MP Nadowli Kaleo added.