The former Northern regional chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Daniel Bugri Naabu has disclosed that he recorded the leaked audio describing conversations about the potential ouster of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare.
The Speaker of the House of Parliament, Alban Bagbin established a committee to conduct a comprehensive forensic investigation to identify people who were hiding behind the scenes.
In an appearance before the committee on Monday (28 August), Naabu revealed that the conversation occurred in his office near the Osu Police Station between himself and three other police officials.
The voices on the tape were identified by him as Commander Asare, COP Mensah, and Superintendent Gyebi. He told Parliament’s ad hoc committee that the officers plotted to depose the national police commander because they believed his activities were detrimental to the ruling NPP and might lead to the party’s defeat in the 2024 elections.
Naabu informed the MPs that he had recorded the conversation for evidential purposes.
“The reason for recording this tape is that they are coming to tell me to go and tell the president [Nana Akufo-Addo] something… and it is either I don’t go to tell the president and then I and my party suffer for it and if I also go to talk to the president, it is good to tell him the right thing and since I cannot keep everything they were telling me at that point, it was very good to record, and I know the president, [if] I go and tell him something, and it turns [out] not to be true, next time he won’t give me respect,” Naabu said.
“I didn’t do it myself but I requested somebody who knows how to do the recording to come and do it for me. I didn’t use a phone I went to the mall and got this ordinary tape,” he added.
Meanwhile, the government has categorically denied rumours of a covert plot to depose the Inspector General of Police before the 2024 general elections.
Interior Minister Ambrose Dery stated, “The government has no plans to fire the IGP, and we are confident that nothing will be allowed to disturb the peace from now until 2024.”
