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There have been death threats on the life of dismissed police officer at Kwesimintsim District Police Command in the Western region, General Corporal Salihu Mohammed, purportedly by the former Kwesimintsim District Police Commander, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Yakubu Ayamga, Today has learnt. 

The threats followed Salihu Mohammed to testify against the cocaine suspect in the Kwesimintsim cocaine saga and also expose all those who profited from the bust.

Consequently, Mr. Mohammed has called on the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr. John Kofi Kudalor, to, as a matter of urgency, investigate the issue.

According to Mr. Mohammed, DSP Ayamga, who was alleged to have taken GH¢65,000.00 bribe from a suspected cocaine dealer, Ebenezer Koomson,  in the Kwesimintsim cocaine bust in order to free him, threatened to take his [Mohammed’s] life by “hook or crook.”

“I wish you (referring to Salihu Mohammed) were jailed by now…but I am going to deal with you if you do not change your mind from testifying against the cocaine suspect in court,” Mr. Mohammed revealed to Today.

The threats on his life, Mr. Mohammed lamented, came to the fore after DSP Ayamga ordered his detention, ostensibly to deter him and other police officers from testifying against the suspect in court after he (Supt. Yakubu Ayamga), received his share of GH¢25,000 of the GH¢65,000 bribe the suspect gave to him, the retired judge, Charles Nimako, and the three other police officers who were involved in the arrest.

Narrating his ordeal to Today, Salihu Mohammed disclosed that DSP Ayamga, who is currently at the Police Training College at Tesano in Accra, made every effort to frustrate and also prevent him from appearing in court to testify against the suspect.

He told Today that DSP Ayamga as part of his attempt to get rid of him allegedly plotted with one Lance Corporal Alanda who assaulted “me on two occasions without any provocation and after I made a formal complaint to the station, he (DSP Ayamga) told the respective investigators who were Stephen Dzamesi and Richard Sam to forget about the case.

He alleged that DSP Ayamga allegedly connived with a police woman whose name was given as, Leticia Amissah, to also assault his wife who was eight months pregnant for no apparent reason.

According to Mr. Mohammed, all these were done to him with the expectation that he would be provoked to take the laws into his own hands which he did not do.

He indicated that the action(s) of his former boss made him report all the “evil schemes” against him to the then Director of Police Intelligence and Professional Bureau (PIPS), Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr. Ahele.

“DSP Ayamga called me and said I could take the issue to the United Nations and that he did not care and would also not listen to anybody. This was the kind of troubles DSP Ayamga made me go through simply because he was doing his very best to show me where power lies,” Mr. Mohammed told this paper.