Police will not arrest Inusah, says IGP

Ghana's Inspector General of Police, Mr Peter Nanfuri on Tuesday insisted that Police would not arrest ruling National Democratic Congress member Alhaji Issaka Inusah, who said at a weekend at a political rally that he helped rig the March 1999 parliamentary by-election at Ablekuma Central in Accra for the opposition NPP.

Alhaji Inusah was, until his recent defection, a leading member of the NPP (New Patriotic Party. "The police will only act upon a formal complaint and a statement taken from the complainant at a police station.

If you mean it, report,'' Nanfuri told the Ghana News Agency in a telephone interview. "I don't take instructions from them and they should use the appropriate channels," Mr Nanfuri said. He said this is not the time to get hysterical and for accusations and counter accusations.

Last Saturday, at an NDC rally at Cape Coast, Alhaji Inusah now a member of the presidential campaign team of the NDC accused the NPP of rigging the bye-election, which the NPP won by 5,000 votes. Alhaji Inusah said: "I know what I am saying because I was in the centre of it."