Plot to remove Dampare: 'IGP’s boy' ASP Asante considers quitting police service – Report

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Kenneth Asante Antwi, one of the two police service who is said to have recorded the leaked tape of the plot to remove the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare, is reportedly contemplating quitting the police service.

According to a report by dailyguidenetwork.com, ASP Asante Antwi has been under serious pressure since his name was mentioned during the public hearing on the leaked tape and has told friends he intends to resign from the service.

The report indicated that the police officer, who is the head of surveillance and intelligence, has been staying home after he was cited at the hearing.

At the public hearing on Tuesday, Superintendent George Lysander Asare, one of the senior police officers in the leaked tape of an alleged plot to remove the Inspector General of Police (IGP), disclosed the supposed identity of one of the police officers who allegedly recorded the leaked tape.

According to him, two officers of the Ghana Police Service were sent by the IGP, Dr. George Akuffo-Dampare, to set up the office of Bugri Naabu, the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Northern Regional Chairman, to record their meeting.

Supt. Asare indicated that one of the two officers sent by Dr Dampare to record the leaked tape goes by the name Asante and is either a police corporal or sergeant.

“If you could remember when Alhaji called me, he knows my name, I’m Asare … but I don’t know what moved Bugri Naabu into calling me Ashanti.

“And this Asante per our intel, is a corporal or sergeant that has been promoted to police college to become an ASP (Assistant Superintendent of Police). And this same ASP, it was Commission George Alex Mensah that made him go to the peacekeeping mission," he said.

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