Nanfuri denies seeing posters and billboards

The Independent reports that the normally very serious and taciturn Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Peter Nanfuri, on Thursday caused a paroxysm of laughter and general hilarity among pressmen when he said because he goes home late in the night he hasn’t seen posters and billboards of political parties in the streets of the capital.

"I normally go home very late at night and so I have not seen them", the IGP stated causing loud bursts of laughter among the journalists at a meeting between police top brass and the press in Accra.

Some senior officers, according to the paper, could not help grinning or covering their mouths to control the laughter when they heard their boss' amazing statement. The IGP had furthered however that he had handed over the task of removing the offending political posters and billboards to the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) with some policemen assigned.