NDC Calls Out IGP Over “Mind Your Business” Letter To British High Commissioner

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has chided the Inspector General of Police, George Akufo Dampare for telling the British High Commissioner to Ghana, Harriet Thompson, to mind her business.

In a letter dated May 20, 2022, addressed to Harriet, the IGP rebuked her for a tweet she made about the second arrest of activist Oliver Barker Vormawor and noted that her action was a breach of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relation, 1961 which enjoins missions not to meddle in the internal affairs of a country.

The message, the NDC has found to be misguided and far-fetched.

According to the opposition party, the message to the IGP has the propensity to disrupt the longstanding relationship between Ghana and the United Kingdom (UK).

It added that “it is only autocratic regimes who have no regard for democratic principles that are averse to criticism and international scrutiny”.

It noted that the IGP should have rather channelled his grievance to the Foreign Affairs Ministry through the Ministry of Interior.

It, therefore, advised the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration to “immediately intervene in offering diplomatic guidance to the IGP and also taking concrete steps to ease tension”.

Reacting in an interview with Natalie Fort on GhOne TV, the British High Commissioner to Ghana noted that her tweet was taken wrongly by the IGP.

She indicated that she posted the message as a person with an interest in the country and its people and not in the Office of a British High Commissioner to the country.

She added that she was not expecting a response from the IGP.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini