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THE VULGAR display of power and arrogance on the part of some politicians manifested itself when a reporter from the Daily Heritage made an attempt to seek clarification from the... ...Greater Regional Minister, Julius Debrah over wild allegations against him by his onetime lover Ms Gemima Dufie that he has shirked his parental responsibilities after abandoning her, his mistress and their two children. The minister, instead of providing answers to the questions the reporter was posing in a mutually agreed interview; he turned his office into an interrogation room and invited two well-built police officers to subject the reporter to rigorous grilling and harassment. For only asking the minister some pertinent questions regarding his relationship with the said lady and the reasons for his behaviour the two police operatives at the behest of the minister took the reporter, Mr Philip Antoh through vigorous and intimidating interrogation. Not satisfied with the ordeal they had taken the reporter through they subsequently asked the reporter to write his statement in the presence of the minister last Friday in his office at the Regional Coordinating Council. But the reporter demurred on their instructions to him to write his statement, fearing a well-hatched plan between the police officers there and the minister to get the reporter incriminate himself just because he is undertaking his legitimate duties of crosschecking his story. This paper also gathered that the minister was trying to use the police interrogation to put fear into the heart of the reporter hoping that he could succeed in killing the story. The Daily Heritage after thorough investigations later identified the two policemen who subjected our reporter to that interrogation as one Prosper from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service and one ASP John Agbemabiese. �When I requested to record the voice of Mr. Debrah on tape, he vehemently objected to it and said it is against his profession, so upon several talks, he only agreed to speak to me only if I will write whatever he is saying,� the reporter stated. �During the interview session, the CID officer asked me if I inquired from the lady whether, while she was dating the minister, she was dating another man and I answered in the affirmative.� The question was premised on the assumption by the CID that madam Dufie had admitted to some clergy men that she was dating another man. According to them, that admission contradicted the claim in an interview with the reporter that she was not dating anyone apart from the Hon Julius Debrah, the Greater Regional Minister. �Immediately after the interview, the two police officers led me to another sitting room where some people were waiting to speak with the minister and pulled a white sheet with an inscription �statement� and asked me to write what the lady told me on it,� he said. �But I said no because I only came there to conduct an interview and not to write statements before criminal investigators and so I need to speak with my boss.� It was not too clear what informed the unnecessary interference from the minister as he had earlier introduced the two officers as directors at the coordinating council. Yesterday, the Daily Heritage carried a story with the headline �Love turns sour, MINISTER IMPREGNATED ME� And abandoned me and my 2 children.� In the story, an unemployed thirty-one-year-old nursing mother, Madam Gemima Dufie is accusing the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Mr. Julius Debrah of abandoning her and their two children after dating her for many years. The Minister has denied fathering the two children though he admitted dating the woman long before he was appointed as a minister of state. Clutching a supposed DNA test result as his defense, the minister said the woman is using all manner of tricks to siphon resources from him. But the former minister�s mistress insisted that he is the father of their children since she never dated any man apart from the minister in all her life.