Mahama Swerves Anyidoho

Published in Daily Guide on February 19, 2013

 

 Helen Ntoso

By Charles Takyi-Boadu

President John Dramani Mahama yesterday named the Member of Parliament for Krachi West, Madam Helen Adwoa Ntoso as the Minister designate for the Volta Region, dashing the hopes of former Presidential Spokesperson, Koku Anyidoho, who is said to be eyeing the position following the death of the late Henry Ford Kamel.
Earlier, The Ghanaian Lens, a newspaper owned and edited by Koku Anyidoho, had created the impression that he had been penciled down for the Volta Region top position.
It even proceeded to state emphatically that the man had clinched the post.
But a statement issued in Accra yesterday and signed by the Executive Secretary to the President, Dr Raymond Atuguba said, “In accordance with Article 256 (1) of the 1992 Constitution of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama has nominated for the consideration of Parliament, Hon. Helen Adwoa Ntoso as the Regional Minister designate for the Volta Region.”
This leaves Mr Anyidoho, who was virtually calling all the shots during the reign of the late President Mills, without any substantive portfolio in the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration.
He has often been spotted at the Kuku Hill office of the late President in Osu where he hangs out with other colleagues who were loyal to Mills until his untimely death last year.
As it stands now, Mr Anyidoho is only hoping and praying to catch the attention of the President with regard to the rest of his appointments, either as deputy minister or any job for the boys.
Until then, he remains a mere member of the ruling NDC.

Chiefs Paid To Visit Mahama

Published in Daily Guide on February 19, 2013

Naa Prof John Nabila-President, National House of Chiefs

By Charles Takyi-Boadu

Shocking details are emerging from various chiefs’ visits to the presidency, then Osu Castle and now Flagstaff House, under the pretext of paying courtesy calls on President John Mahama.
Apart from the fact that the chiefs are invited to the seat of government to give some sort of legitimacy to Mr Mahama’s presidency, evidence gathered by DAILY GUIDE indicates that all the chiefs from various regional houses of chiefs that trooped to the presidency were given motivation for embarking on the trip.
DAILY GUIDE has stumbled on a copy of a letter written and signed by the Chief Director of the Ministry of Chieftaincy and Culture, Rebecca Amooh-Aboagye, on behalf of the minister, addressed to all the registrars of the various regional houses of chiefs in which she asked the chiefs to present a budget for such trips.
In the said letter, which is dated January 18, 2013 and captioned ‘Courtesy Call On His Excellency John Dramani Mahama President of the Republic of Ghana’, it was stated, “You are further requested to submit a budget for the trip by 24^th January 2013 for consideration.”
This, the letter indicated, followed a request from the chiefs from the various regions to call on President Mahama to, as it were, congratulate him on assumption of office  as president of  the Republic.
The budget was expected to facilitate the visit of the chiefs who were not to be more than 15 members of the regional houses of chiefs to go and pay homage to the president whose election is being challenged in court by some members of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) including its flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The most recent of such visits to the presidency was by the Eastern Regional House of Chiefs, led by the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin, which generated a heated debate.
This was after executives of the Eastern regional branch of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) issued a statement in which they described the visit by the traditional rulers as ‘unwarranted’ and politically motivated.
An appeal by the chiefs, who were led by Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, for President Mahama to do well to accept the outcome of the petition before the Supreme Court seeking to invalidate his election, was equally rubbished by the NDC chieftains.
DAILY GUIDE has learnt that very soon, other institutions and professional groups would be lined up to congratulate the president as the chiefs have been made to do.
Some, including political analysts, have suggested that the move could be part of a grand scheme by the president and his handlers to get the chiefs and other bodies and institutions to endorse his presidency in spite of the dispute over the elections.

EC Hot!

3 Officials Arrested

Published in Daily Guide on February 18, 2013

Salamatu Usman arrested by the Police

By Charles Takyi-Boadu
It appears Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan and the Electoral Commission (EC) are desperate, in a quest to gather ‘further and better particulars’ to defend the commission at the Supreme Court over the petition filed by the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) challenging the outcome of the 2012 general elections.
The EC has dispatched its officials to the regions after collecting evidence from the petitioners, the three New Patriotic Party (NPP) leaders including the party’s December 2012 presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to get all unsigned documents authenticated in view of the court dispute over the December polls.
Other petitioners challenging the commission’s declaration of John Dramani Mahama as President are Nana Addo’s running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and the party chairman, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey.
But some of the secret agenda have leaked into the public domain, as some of the officials who participated in the elections have declined to sign.
There were a number of reports over the weekend of attempts by officials of the EC to get some Presiding Officers, especially in the Northern Region, to now sign ‘pink sheets’ used during the disputed elections, two months after the elections.
One such incident which got to the attention of DAILY GUIDE happened in Walewale where the Presiding Officer, a certain Abdul Basit Musah, was approached by the Returning Officer for the EC, one Richard Ayamba, to append his signature to the document.
Interestingly, the issue of unsigned pink sheets is a major part of the irregularities the NPP has complained of, and is seeking to prove that they affected the conduct and outcome of the elections and for which the Supreme Court is being asked to overturn the declaration of President John Dramani Mahama as winner of the presidential elections conducted by the EC.
Abdul Basit, who manned the ‘Cotton Office’ polling station in Walewale, confirmed the incident to DAILY GUIDE when confronted with the information upon a tip-off that he was involved in some underhand dealings with some EC officials.
On the contrary, he narrated that he was in school last week Thursday when a visibly desperate official of the Electoral Commission, Richard Ayamba, came to him and requested that he sign an unsigned pink sheet from his polling station.
He indicated that the request by the EC official baffled him since according to him, the same man had crosschecked everything on the sheet when he submitted it on December 8 2012, after collating the figures and gave the green light for the ‘statement of polls’ and declaration of results from the polling station to be included in the results for the Walewale constituency.
Complicity
However, he declined the request on the basis that copies of the unsigned sheet had already been given to representatives of the various political parties who were present and for which reason signing the sheet could make him complicit in an attempt to cover up wrongdoing in view of the Supreme Court case.
Upon refusal, Basit claimed Mr Ayamba, the EC official, became furious and asked him whether he wanted to put them and the Electoral Commission in trouble.
Basit said he set conditions for the officer to fulfill if he indeed wanted him to append his signature to the document.
He asked the EC official to assemble all polling agents present at the polling station on the election day or at least gather representatives of the parties within the constituency before he would sign, a condition he said the official could not meet.
Apart from that, he also demanded that the EC official should retrieve all the pink sheets given to the political parties for him to sign all of them, a condition he could also not meet since according to him, the EC official said that would waste time.
This was said to have infuriated Mr Ayamba who then decided to leave. But before leaving, he allegedly told Basit that his pink sheet was the only one which was left to be signed and that six other presiding officers in the East Mamprusi district, which had the Walewale and Yagaba Kubori constituencies, had all signed theirs and these were subsequently dispatched to the EC headquarters in Accra.
Justification
The Returning Officer, Richard Ayamba, indeed confirmed approaching Abdul Basit with the said pink sheet though he saw nothing wrong with his actions.
“There is nothing fishy about it,” he told DAILY GUIDE, insisting that the forms were brought to the Regional Head Office of the EC in Tamale for him to get those who did not sign the pick sheets to append their signatures to them.
Asked why he was taking the pink sheets around for them to be signed two months after the elections, Mr Ayamba responded: “It didn’t come from me as an individual because we had handed over all the statement of polls to our officers. So it was just because I was the Returning Officer that it was brought for me from the region. I didn’t go to manufacture the pink sheets.”
But Northern Regional Director for the EC, Sylvester Kanyi did not tell whether or not he had indeed instructed Returning Officers in the region to go round and get Presiding Officers who did not sign their pink sheets to do so, when DAILY GUIDE contacted him.
He claimed to have only heard about the development on radio while in Kumasi and therefore declined to make further comments until he had been fully briefed on the matter.

Arrest Me!

-Owusu Bempah Tells Police

Published on February 1, 2013

Ernest Owusu Bempah

By Charles Takyi-Boadu

Deputy Communications Director for the National Democratic Party (NDP), Ernest Owusu Bempah, has dared the police to arrest him.
It follows a supposed invitation extended to some leading members of the Let My Vote Count Alliance (LMVCA) by the Madina police.
Deputy Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic  Party (NPP), Sammi Awuku, claimed to have received a call from the Madina District Police Commander on Wednesday, asking him to come along with leading members of the group including Owusu Bempah, James Kwabena Bonfeh of the Convention Peoples Party (CPP), Abu Ramadan of the People’s National Convention (PNC)  and Charles Owusu of the Progressive People’s Party (PPP), to answer certain questions pertaining to a rally they held over the weekend.
But speaking on Oman FM’s ‘National Agenda’ morning show yesterday, an obviously angry Owusu Bempah said, “Me as an individual, I will not go.”
“I am not going anywhere; let them come and arrest me,” he said, asking, “What have I done?”

Basis
According to him, he had not received any official invitation from the police either by phone or formal letter.
“If we are organizing a programme dubbed ‘Let My Vote Count’ and my friends invite me and my party also believes our votes are missing and I go to speak at the event on behalf of my flagbearer and my party, what has that got to do with the police?” he quizzed, insisting, “If the Madina police want to invite me, they should formally write to my flagbearer or my party general secretary and if they give the permission, I will come but now I’m not coming anywhere.”
The man nicknamed ‘Billy Goat emphasised, “I won’t go”, whilst asking rhetorically, “What I’m going to do there?”
He claimed to have only heard of the supposed invitation on radio and that nobody had sent him invitation either through the phone or an official letter, insisting, “That is not the procedure for the police to invite anybody to come.”
Owusu Bempah wondered, “What has the Madina Police got to do with it when somebody has gone to speak”, adding that even before his arrest and subsequent detention by officials of the Bureau of National Investigations last year, they called him on the phone to invite him even though he demanded an official letter before he went.

The Odds
“This time round, it’s not as if you will be sitting somewhere and somebody tells you, ‘you have been invited’ (by the police) and you get up and pick your bag and go to the Madina Police station; I don’t do my things like that so I’m not going because I don’t have an issue with anybody there,” he emphasized.
For him, these were some of the things that increased tension in the country, wondering what the police and the security agencies did when a leading member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kakra Essamuah, said on Asempa FM that he would do or support a coup d’état should the Supreme Court rule in favour of the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo in the ongoing trial.
In spite of making that treacherous statement, Owusu-Bempah said, “he (Kakra Essamuah) is walking about freely”, wondering what had also become of the infamous ‘Yaw Boateng Gyan tape’ in which the national organiser of the ruling NDC was heard hatching a plot with some party faithful of his intentions to use some NDC boys as agents of the National Security to intimidate people during the elections.
“Up till date, have you heard that any of the security agencies has invited him?” he asked, emphasizing, “As for me, I will not go and I’m saying it that if they want they should come and pick me up like a fowl.”
He stated, “We are not living in elected dictatorship; we are not living in a jungle warfare”, stressing, “We are living in a sovereign state where human right is very very important.”
“If these things continue to go on, it’s too volatile and too fragile for this country,” he noted.

Police chase Sammi Awuku, 4 others

Published in Daily Guide on January 31, 2013

Sammy Awuku

By Charles Takyi-Boadu

The police at Madina have invited Deputy Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammi Awuku and others including the National Youth Organiser of the Peoples National Convention (PNC), Abu Ramadan, for questioning.
The rest include the parliamentary candidate for the Convention Peoples Party (CPP) in the Kintampo North constituency in the 2012 elections, James Kwabena Bomfeh, aka Kabila, with their colleagues Ernest Owusu Bempah and Charles Owusu of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and Progressive People’s Party (PPP) respectively.
Mr Awuku confirmed the invitation to DAILY GUIDE: “I received a call from the Madina Police division; the district police commander who said he was calling to invite me for an interaction and questioning concerning the ‘Let My Vote Count Alliance’ that was launched over the weekend at Dome-Kwabenya, Taifa-Norway park. ”
“He said he wants to know what it’s all about, he also wants to know our intentions, he also wants to know why we had the rally,” he noted.
Originally, they were supposed to have reported yesterday morning but Mr Awuku indicated to the Madina district commander it was not possible for him to make it to the station since he had other engagements for which reason the meeting was rescheduled for 10:00 a.m. this morning. But at press time DAILY GUIDE learnt that Monday has been fixed for the meeting.
The NPP man narrated “he also enquired about the organizers and the conveners” but said “I told him I was a speaker at the event. Nonetheless, I know that the ‘Let My Vote Count Alliance’ was not a secret cult so I will also reach out to the organizers and we will have a date with him tomorrow” (being today).
Mr. Awuku said he has since informed the aforementioned individuals who are equally wanted by the police for questioning.
The group, according to Mr. Awuku, has since informed their lawyers and would meet the police on Monday.
However, an obviously bemused Sammi Awuku told DAILY GUIDE “I think that there is so much tension in the system; any attempt by the security agencies and the government of the day to cow people into submission, to victimize people going about their legitimate duties and so on will also serve as a trigger to  the tension in the system.”
In view of this, he said “I’m only cautioning the government and also the security agencies to be very level-headed in these matters.”
Sabotage
A statement issued by the ‘Let My Vote Count Alliance’ (LMVCA) yesterday asked the police and government to stay off their backs.
The statement which was signed by leading members of the group including David Asante, James Kwabena Bomfeh, Charles Owusu, Abu Ramadan, Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe and Maame Afua Akoto said they were aware of a deliberate plan by the National Security and the National Communications Authority (NCA) to sabotage one of their major partners and one of the most popular radio stations in the country, Oman FM.
This, they said, was in view of the fact that the frequency of Oman FM has been interrupted since the launch of the Alliance last Sunday.
Government Antics
“Information that we have picked up from sources close to the system suggests that the National Security and National Communications Authority are behind this apparent, deliberate act of sabotage,” the group alleged.
They claimed to have picked up signals that suggested the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the National Security apparatus were uncomfortable with their activities and operations and were therefore determined to use any means necessary to destroy it.
Leadership of the LMVCA however reminded the two government institutions that “Ghana is not a police state and that the right to assemble, the right to free speech are entrenched provisions in Ghana’s Constitution and we would not allow any person or organisation to take this right away,” whilst indicating their commitment to a peaceful, non-violent expression of concerns.
That notwithstanding, they noted “no amount of state-sponsored intimidation and harassment can stop us” and consequently reminded President John Dramani Mahama, whom they referred to as ‘disputed President’ that “he would not succeed in bullying his way to hold on to power” insisting “not even the KGB tactics and police brutalities of the Ukrainian authorities could stop the masses from protesting and the Supreme Court from ruling that their presidential election was rigged.”
This, the statement said, was because “if such state-sponsored act of terrorism could work against the tide of democracy in former communist state, Ukraine, then it certainly wouldn’t work in Ghana here.”
The group has since asked President Mahama to, as it were, “pull back from turning Ghana into a police state in this period before the Supreme Court ruling” and urged him to bring a stop to these deliberate acts of interference with the operations of Oman FM.

Martin Amidu arrested?

Published in Daily Guide on January 31, 2013

Martin A.B.K Amidu

By Charles Takyi-Boadu

Information gathered by DAILY GUIDE suggests former Attorney General and Minister of Justice in the Mills regime, Martin Alamisi Benz Kaiser Amidu, was picked up by security agents before the 2012 general elections.
A source at the National Security said he was picked up from his home by agents of the National Security a week or so before the election to an unknown destination to prevent him from dropping bombshells.
He was subsequently alleged to have been kept incommunicado for a couple of days until after the elections.
Martin Amidu himself was tight-lipped on the issue when DAILY GUIDE reached him on phone on Tuesday to verify the story, but he declined to make any comment.
“I don’t want to make any comment about that,” he said.
Indications were that no charges were brought against him.
Mr Amidu had been leading a crusade to stamp out corruption in the current NDC administration, especially payments of questionable judgment debts to people close to the government including Alfred Agbesi Woyome, who walked away with GHC51.2million without any contract.
He was determined to retrieve the Woyome payout before he was sacked from government.
It would be recalled that Mr. Amidu made allegations to the effect that the late President John Evans Atta Mills had set up a Committee of Enquiry to investigate the acquisition of aircraft for the Armed Forces negotiated by the then Vice President and now President John Dramani Mahama.
Members of the supposed committee were said to include Interior Minister William Aboah, George Amoah and Brig. Gen. Allotey (Rtd), and they were to investigate the processes of the acquisition of the five aircraft, including the infamous Embraer 190 aircraft and hangar for the Ghana Armed Forces from Brazil.
Although President Mahama never responded to the allegation, it was believed that was one of the reasons Mr Amidu was detained.
Apart from that, the source told DAILY GUIDE the no-nonsense former Attorney-General, who was relieved of his post for obviously opening his mouth too-wide in an attempt to expose corruption in the Mills/Mahama administration, was thought to be having some delicate information which if released, would affect the chances of Mahama, who was the Presidential candidate of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the party in that election.
The government, as it were, thought it wise to put the man who prides himself as ‘citizen vigilante’ into the cooler to prevent him from making explosive statements about the party before the elections.
Interestingly, the supposed committee tasked to investigate the acquisition of aircraft for the Armed Forces was said to have neither sat nor written a report before the demise of the late president.
In one of his several epistles, Mr. Amidu stated that “pressure groups never allowed the Committee to take off.
But the very fact that the late President Mills contemplated this Committee meant that he was uncomfortable with and suspicious of the alleged inflated prices of the aircraft.”

I’ll Win Case: Woyome Bluffs

Published in Daily Guide on January 18, 2013

Alfred Agbesi Woyome

By Charles Takyi-Boadu

Businessman and self-acclaimed financial engineer, Alfred Agbesi Woyome, is brimming with overwhelming confidence that he will win the case in which he is facing charges of allegedly defrauding the State to the tune of GHC51.2million in the name of judgment debt.
In a press release/new year message captioned, ‘A note of appreciation’ widely publicized in most pro-NDC tabloids yesterday, Woyome strongly stated, “I believe that in the soonest possible time, I shall be vindicated.
“In as much as we cannot determine the pace at which the ongoing proceedings in court [relating to the Judgment Debt paid to my good self] shall proceed, the last couple of sittings have begun to reveal the truth about this whole affair,” he confidently said.
What is however not certain is what has given Mr. Woyome this new sense of optimism, believing he can win the case.
This is in view of the fact that he has personally admitted not having a binding contract with government, but yet went ahead to demand a default judgment for a supposed breach of a non existing contract, walking away with GHC51.2million.
However, analysts believe that the appointment as First Deputy Speaker of Parliament of Ebo Barton Odro, former deputy Attorney General, who virtually said the prosecution of Woyome was a wild goose chase because the State had no case in the judgment debt payment saga, might have bolstered his confidence level.
That, in addition to the non availability of witnesses to support Woyome’s prosecution, has given the National Democratic Congress (NDC) financier the hope of escaping the long arm of the law.
Woyome openly admitted, “Indeed, the past year, 2012, has been a most difficult year for me, for my businesses, and for the thousands of Ghanaians who are dependent upon my industry for their livelihood.”
Seeks God’s Face
But the onetime financier of the ruling NDC, who threatened to expose government officials who had remote or direct connection to the case, said, “I know that, in the final analysis, that which my enemies and detractors meant for evil shall work out for our good and we shall have cause to celebrate a wonderful victory, by the power of God.”
He therefore urged all his supporters and well-wishers to remain steadfast, stressing his belief in the rule of law and the fairness of the almighty God.
Optimistic about the opportunities the year 2013 is set to present him and humankind, Mr Woyome expressed his heartfelt appreciation to all who continue to support him throughout what he described as “the ordeal visited upon me by certain individuals, using some arms of the State’s security apparatus”, insisting that “what started in the last quarter of 2011 has been stretched beyond the boundaries of reason”.
For the mercies of God, he said, “I, my household and all the afore-mentioned dependants [both direct and indirect] have not been consumed.”
He noted, “I, therefore, render thanks, first, to the Almighty God whose I am and whom I serve, for his care and consummate benevolence to me” whilst expressing profound gratitude to all the religious leaders who continue praying with him and assuring him of God’s vindication in due season.
“I appreciate the love shown by several traditional rulers from all over the country. Several Ghanaians from all walks of life, from all tribes, from every creed and from diverse political persuasions have consistently shown their concern for the obvious cruelty being meted out to me: to all of you, I say a big ‘thank you”, he stated while signing off.
Woyome has been upbeat about winning the controversial case since the NDC was declared winners in the 2012 general elections.
He has even publicly stated his opinion on who should serve in the government of President Mahama and who should be shown the exit.
He was recently given a red carpet treatment when President Mahama delivered the State of the Nation address.

Blows Over IGP

Published in Daily Guide on January 16, 2013

By Charles Takyi-Boadu

A meeting of the Management Board of the Police Administration at the headquarters took a nasty turn last Wednesday when Commissioner of Police (COP) Rose Atinga Bio, in charge of Administration, was alleged to have engaged in verbal exchanges with the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Mohammed Alhassan, following a misunderstanding.
At the centre of the undercurrent to the present tension in the service is the jostling for the position of the next Inspector General of Police (IGP).
Sources said it was a normal meeting of the top echelon of the service where the agenda included the issue of promotions and transfers which the IGP, Paul Tawiah Quaye, had ordered, his last major assignment prior to retirement.
DAILY GUIDE learnt that DIG Alhassan sought to exert his authority as Chairman of the management meeting (formerly known as Headquarters Management Board) by pulling a brake on the promotions and transfers.
But Rose Bio Atinga was said to have refused to submit to the authority of the DIG, pointing out that the will of the IGP be done, since according to her, he (Alhassan) was the head of the police, but she was in charge of Administration in the service.
Matters were said to have got to a head when Rose Bio allegedly demanded possession of the file containing the list of the affected officers.
A message about the development was said to have been transmitted to the seat of government, the Osu Castle, where a directive was issued asking that any such transfers and promotions be suspended until the appointment of a substantive Interior Minister.
Next IGP
Behind this acrimony among the top brass of the police is the race for the IGP post.
There is intense lobbying in the Police with even Assistant Commissioners of Police (ACPs) declaring their interest for consideration.
Some COPs are highly qualified for the top job but they are seen as politically incorrect, leaving the turf for Rose Bio, Alhassan and John Kudalor.
Some of these ACPs are said to be saying that there was no sense in appointing Commissioners who have barely a year to leave the Service to the position of IGP when most of them (ACPs) have more years to serve.
Deputy Chief Constable Mohammed Alhassan admitted there was a meeting but he denied the misunderstanding between him and Rose Bio Atinga when DAILY GUIDE contacted him yesterday.
“It is not the way they are putting it; of course we share ideas, it’s an open forum, there can’t be any misunderstanding,” he told DAILY GUIDE.
“We want the best ideas out that’s all. We may agree and not agree on issues but that does not mean there can’t be any misunderstanding.”
Meanwhile, COP John Kudalor appears to be the favourite for the post of IGP.
For those who have noticed the inclination of government towards the man who has been in charge of the police, especially during the elections, they have wondered why DIG Mohammed Alhassan is being marginalized.
Mr Alhassan, the most experienced and senior officer after the retiring IGP, having held critical police positions at the United Nations (UN), has a year more to leave the Service, a fact which does not preclude him from being appointed chief constable.
There is however a precedent in the police service as in the case of former IGP Ernest Owusu Poku’s appointment in the year 2001 when the NPP assumed political power.
Though the man had less than a year to go on retirement, then President John Kufuor appointed him acting IGP, a position he held until his time was up.
Nana Owusu Nsiah took over the mantle thereafter till he retired in the year 2005 followed by Patrick Kwarteng Acheampong and Elizabeth Robertson Mills.
With the name of Mr Kudalor now flying high in government circles as likely IGP, the hopes of Rose Bio Atinga, in becoming the next IGP after the incumbent, appears to be dashed.
She therefore seems to have given up any hope of winning the favour of the authorities.
Convention
The Ghana Police Service has become a hotbed of politically-propelled promotions and postings to special units with the present developments not being an exception.
With the recent directive that all transfers be stopped forthwith until a new and substantive Interior Minister is appointed, the suggestion is that the President is intent on following such movements and even elevations with all his heart.
Even the admission of eligible persons into the Police College has been suspended, a development which could mean that for some, they have to lobby more to be given the nod.
During the last intake, some persons had their names dropped even after passing the entrance exams, a situation which prompted grumbling and frustration amongst police officers.
It is therefore a widely held belief that whoever wears the cap of IGP would either live with the many anomalies in the Service or attempt to reverse the order and incur the wrath of his political masters.
Even recruitment into the Service has been stained with instances of malfeasance.
Not too long ago, some police officers were arrested at the Police Hospital undertaking recruitment under the cover of darkness.
Virtually nothing has since been heard of what happened to the case with details being kept under wraps.