Towards the closing half of December 2013, two police officers with the Human Trafficking Unit at the national headquarters were swiftly interdicted, following an allegation by an alleged cross border pimp that they had stolen an unspecified amount from her.
One Corporal Genfi and Sergeant Nab were all alleged by one Victoria Afful, who is believed to be a trafficker of young girls to Italy and France for prostitution, to have stolen $500 from her house in the line of duty.
While Corporal Genfi and Sergent Nab vehemently denied the allegation, they were immediately interdicted by the Police High Command in December, following the report of the alleged theft, and have since remained on interdiction.
Interestingly however, Chief Inspector Sylvester Asare Quansah of the Visa Fraud Unit of the same Headquarters Police, is still a policemen even though there is a Police Intelligence and Professional Bureau Standards (PIPS) recommendation that he be interdicted for allegedly extorting over GH22,000 from a Travel and Tour company, called Bothash White Consult.
As part of PIPS investigations, a fellow police officer, one Corporal Dominic Owusu of the Ashanti Regional Striking Force of the Ghana Police Service, had testified that Chief Inspector Asare Quansah had indeed extorted the money.
Following the allegation, the Headquarters CID, rather than interdicting him, transferred him from Headquarters to the station at Dzorwulu, an action that fed into allegations by sources at Headquarters that Insp. Asare Quansah was the darling boy of some senior officers who he fronts for in many bribe-taking and extortion deals.
While Mr. Asare Quansah still apparels himself in the police uniform, defiant to the demand by Corporal Genfi and Sergeant Nab find themselves at the short end of the stick in an alleged stealing and extortion.
In a story plotted on an allegation of theft that is so deficient of evidence, compared to Chief Inspector Asare Quansah�s alleged extortion adventure, Corporal Genfi and Sergeant Nab were said to have invade the house of Victoria Afful in October, last year as part of a joint team operation by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit and the Anti-Armed Robbery Unit.
The team, which had been led by Insp. Atta Mensah of the anti human trafficking unit, and accompanied by a crew from Metro TV had invaded Madam Afful�s house at Weija, SCC, acting upon a tip-off that she was a cross-boarder pimp who trafficking girls, mostly Nigerians, to Italy and France for commercial sex.
In the details of the tip-off, Madam Afful was said to have recruited the young girls, organized Ghanaian passports for those who were Nigerian, and trafficked them to various destinations in Europe, who would then work in red light districts to pay her back.
When the team got to the alleged trafficker�s house, it met only her son, one Frederick Osei, and immediately arrested him.
A raid in the house also led to the discovery of five Nigerians girls suspected to be about to be trafficked.
As part of the raid, the team was bent on investigating every part of the house but a door to one of the rooms was locked.
With the authority of a search warrant, the team broke into the room where passports and other documents were taken.
The police had also impounded two cars belonging to the woman.
Frederick Osei, Madam Afful�s son, was eventually granted bail, while his mother, who reported to the Police-Headquarters later, was also granted bail.
Sources from Headquarters say the woman has since been arraigned before court, but the prosecution process keeps suffering setbacks because some big men at the place keep rotating the docket from one officer to another.
It is said that Sergeant Nab was one of the officers who had handled the docket.
Enquirer cannot independently verify but the allegation in the air is that some big men there have taken bribe from the woman and are doing everything they can to make sure that the case in court is either abandoned or ill-prosecuted.
Sergeant Nab and Corporal Genfi, according to sources, were only two people among many in the joint team of anti human trafficking and anti armed robbery units who had gone on the operation at Madam Victoria Afful�s house.
It is amazing to many that the two alone have been accused by Madam Afful of stealing her money, even though she was not present at the time the operation teams stormed her house at Weija.
Interestingly, while Headquarters has found it appropriate to swiftly interdict the two officers accused by Madam Victoria Afful of stealing, Chief Inspector Sylvester Asare Quansah, who is having a PIPS interdiction recommendation on his head, still remains a police officer.
Sergeant Nab and Corporal Genfi are said to have pointed out the hypocrisy on the part of the Police high command in a protest letter.
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