Dampare’s Meeting With NPP & NDC Leadership In Pictures

The National Youth Organiser of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Henry Nana Boakye has shared the encounter with the Inspector General of Police, Dr George Akufo Dampare on Monday, April 17.

The IGP convened a meeting with the leadership of the NPP and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) over petitions their respective petitions for the arrest of key members from each side following “treasonable” comments they’ve made.

Representing the NPP were Justin Kodua Frimpong, General Secretary and Henry Nana Boakye, National Organizer.

On the NDC side were Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, National Chairman; Fiifi Fiavi Kwetey, General Secretary; and Sammy Gyamfi.

At the meeting with the Police, the parties were allowed to air their grievances which boiled down to disturbing comments by some key political actors from both sides.

The parties received a lecture on the reviewed strategy in going about such development.

They were informed about the legal team set up to review such comments to ascertain the level of criminality before subsequent steps are taken.

The police explained that this is to move from the practice in the past where the police acted in the heat of the moment creating impressions that the Service was a poodle of a particular party.

“This is a paradigm shift from practice in the past where people were arrested in the heat of the moment for politically related incidents as a result of attempts y politicians on either side to whip up public sentiments against the police thereby creating the impression that the police support one side against the other.

“In such instances where no concrete charges can be levelled against such people, they are released thereby creating the impression in the public domain as though the police were manipulated in effecting their arrests”, a statement from the police on Monday said.

The police, therefore, urged the parties to focus on their politics whereas it undertakes its mandate.

“They should do their politics and allow the police to do policing.”