IGP Speaks On Security Bombshell

?I don?t know whether it?s true or not and I don?t think it?s a matter I should think of?

INSPECTOR GENERAL of Police Nana Owusu Nsiah has urged the public to allow the allegations of reported row within the top echelons of the security services as well as claims and counter claims of alleged attempted implications within the top hierarchy, to ease-off.

He said did not attach much significance to the allegations when it came to his notice himself because he did not believe that anybody could frame him up.

?I just didn?t take it because l don?t think anybody can frame me up? he said, in response to post-events of the news report by this paper Thursday that the Police Service were probing allegations by an NDC insider, Kofi Kakraba Korsah that he was allegedly asked to implicate some top national security capos.

Korsah had alleged that Interior Minister Hon. Hackman Owusu Agyemang and Police Commissioner of Operations Dr Kofi Kesse Manfo contracted him to gather recording data on some key officials within the national security apparatus with a view of framing them up as agents of the main opposition NDC party.

Among those he claimed were to be implicated are National Security Advisor and Coordinator Mr. Francis Poku, Inspector General of Police Nana Owusu Nsiah, deputy IGP Akwasi Acheampong, and Greater Accra Regional Police Commander, ACP Kofi Boakye.

The Interior Minister and Dr Manfo have both denied the allegations, with Hon. Owusu Agyemang describing the allegation as ?bunkum?.

?I don?t need to frame my juniors up to have them sacked? he told this paper weeks ago and repeated it on a number of radio stations Thursday.

Speaking on the issue Friday morning on Radio Gold, the IGP said he did not know whether the allegations were true and that the truthfulness or otherwise of it would only be known to the protagonists involved in the allegations and denials, adding that he preferred not to think of it.

?I don?t know whether it?s true or not and I don?t think it?s a matter I should think of?, Nana Owusu Nsiah said, indicating however that he did not put much weight on it when he was informed by the NDC foot soldier of the allegations.

The IGP said he was also not worried about the allegations. ?I don?t think of it at all? he intoned, adding that he saw Concord?s report as an ordinary story by a newspaper.

For him, the only thing that could implicate him was his own performance as an IGP, stressing that he is committed to doing his job in an honourable manner.

He said he had a very honorary duty to maintain peace and stability and that it was more of his aim to remain focussed on that. He would therefore not allow anything to distract his attention from that mission, he said.

He also admitted going to Madam Ama Busia?s house when asked whether he had been there with the Minister to thrash out their differences as Kakraba alleged he was told by the Interior Minister, but quickly added that their visit to the house could not have been as a result of differences. He said he was there to mark the celebration of a party by the Minister and that he believed there was no strain in his relationship with Hon. Owusu Agyemang.

Speaking on the same station after the IGP spoke, Dr Manfo also reiterated his earlier denials to this paper and delved more into what he said he was told by the same Kakraba Korsah.

According to him, Korsah was the initiator of the allegations and he suspects that he wanted to do a dirty job on him.

According to Dr Manfo, it was rather Kakraba who brought him the information that those he claimed he (Dr Manfo) wanted him (Kakraba) to spy on wanted him the Commissioner dead. He said Kakraba provided him a detailed report in his handwriting of alleged meetings at a venue and the names and car numbers of those who attended those meetings as well as what each person said at that meeting.

The Police Service began discreet investigations into the scandalous revelation by the NDC foot soldier after an earlier probe on the same issue by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) last week.

The two probes were the results of the allegations by Kakraba, who stirred controversy late last week following this paper?s reportage of his allegations against the security capos and their denials, as well as his appearance on two of the nation?s leading radio stations - Joy FM and Radio Gold - to elaborate on the allegations.

The allegations which suggest some cracks in the national security apparatus went as far as to President John Agyekum Kufuor.