IGP Is Telling Lies - ACP Boakye

Kofi Boakye Slams His Boss

1st Law Legal Practitioners, lawyers for the on-leave Director-General of the Ghana Police Service, ACP Kofi Boakye, have punched holes in the evidence given at the Georgina Wood Committee by the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Patrick Acheampong.

Quoting William Pitts “where law ends, tyranny begins”, Lawyers Vincent Aikins, Joe Aboagye Debrah and Kwame Ayimadu-Antwi concluded in their final submission yesterday to the ‘cocaine probe” that “The IGPs testimony in respect of the matters concerning our client is not credible, as he lied under oath and/or at best’, was economical with the truth in his testimony.

They claimed that the evidence of their client had been consistent and corroborated by other witnesses before the committee.

ACP Kofi Boakye’s lawyers endeavoured to re-assert that he had informed his superiors, including the IGP, before and after meeting suspected barons at his residence, a meeting which was secretly recorded and calculated as the now well known “Kofi Boakye Tapes”.

“You will recall that our client had testified that a certain Joe Donkor and the same Alhaji Issah Abbas had used the name of the IGP to dupe someone of two million dollars in a ‘419’ deal, out of which one hundred thousand dollars had been given to the IGP as ‘security money’.

The IGP admitted that our client had told him about the information he had gathered but did not admit in evidence to receiving any such money from the said Joe Donkor and Alhaji Issah’s fraudulent activities.

Our client further testified that barely a week later, he had information that the same Alhaji Issah had gone on the boat with policemen to raid the ship. He informed the IGP about this also.

The IGP denied on oath that he had been told by our client about this information on the activities of the bosom pal of the highest police officer of our dear country. Our client further testified that he had cause to arrest Tagor over an assault matter and he reported this also to the IGP. This assertion was admitted by the IGP”, they submitted in an 18-page report.