Interdicted Police Corporals petition IGP

Two police corporals stationed at Offinso in Ashanti, Mr Kwasi Tetteh and Mr Victor Owusu have petitioned the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) against their interdiction by the Ashanti Regional Police Command on allegation of attempting to collect bribe.

They called for thorough and expeditious investigation into the matter that they attempted to collect one million cedis from a chainsaw operator.

The petitioners said on November nine, this year, they were travelling in a taxi with one Mr Appenteng, a Technical Officer of the Offinso Forestry Commission from Danase to Offinso when they intercepted a KIA Tipper Truck loaded with sawn lumber.

They stated that Mr Appenteng requested their assistance to arrest the driver, and as peace officers, ordered the driver to drive to the forestry commission at Offinso but the driver, Baba Issah drove to a filling station with the excuse that, the vehicle had developed fault.

The driver was later handed over to the officer on duty at Offinso police station and entries made in the station dairy. Later, the interdicted police corporals learnt that, the truck together with the lumber had been towed to the offices of the forestry commission and the matter referred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).

The petition said, on November 19, 2001, the policemen were informed that the commission had imposed a fine of one million cedis on the driver and issued with a receipt.

They stated that they did not ask for bribe or behaved in a manner to suggest that they would be amenable to accept a bribe.