“We also wish to state categorically that Kumasi and Ashanti Region as a whole need police commanders who totally believe in the values and ideals of NDC and Better Ghana Agenda as election 2016 is approaching.”
This is a quotation from a petition allegedly authored by a group styling itself as the “National Democratic Congress (NDC) Security Caucus of Kumasi which is engaged in a campaign for the transfer of the Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kofi Boakye.
The shadowy group also wrote "We in the NDC must be careful and always exercise diligence on the posting and transfer of police commanders who are in bed politically with and also sympathetic to the cause of NPP in Kumasi and Ashanti Region.”
It must be clear that those who engage in this campaign of lies slander and vilification against the Ashanti Regional Police Commander do the National Democratic Congress (NDC) no good.
First, they portray the party as an intolerant and arrogant in situation whose only concern is to win political power and to punish all those who disagree with it.
The language of petition also demonstrates clearly a determination to subvert the independence and neutrality of the public institution.
It is interesting that both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) see the Ashanti Regional Command of the Police Service as being biased against them.
That perhaps, shows the extent to which the command has maintained its neutrality.
Kofi Boakye and his men and women must be doing something good to annoy activists of the two leading parties in Ghana.
Only a couple of weeks ago, some elements of the NPP were busily chasing DCOP Kofi Boakye for allegedly expressing anti-NPP sentiments in an interview on TV3’s “Hot Issues”.
How can one-person be working for or sympathetic to both the NDC and the NPP at the same time?
May be these party hawks believe that it is possible to ride two horses in opposite direction at the same time.
The record of current Police Command in Ashanti is very impressive and that is what should matter the most.
The physical structures of the police in Ashanti have improved significantly with the massive renovation of the Regional headquarters and the building of an ultra-modern conference facility.
It is also generally acknowledged that the crime rate has been substantially reduced in Ashanti.
Police public relations is also said to have significantly improved.
DCOP Kofi Boakye is now affectionately called “Commander One” by residents of Ashanti.
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