The Police Intelligence and Professional Standards Bureau (PIPS) have started investigating Superintendent Anyidoho, a Crime Officer at the Airport Police Station for allegedly defrauding one Ernest Asare, a car dealer in Accra.
The car dealer is appealing to the Director of PIPS to compel Superintendent Felix Anyidoho to pay some One Hundred and Fifty thousand Ghana Cedis (150, 000) owed him and his colleagues to enable them settle their clients.
Narrating his ordeal in a petition addressed to PIPS, the car dealer alleged that the Crime Officer requested a Toyota Corolla saloon car and a Toyota Highlander 2013, model through a lady believed to be his girlfriend from his garage at Achimota.
Asare stated that after two separate meetings, first at the Polo grounds near the airport police station and the other at the Mile 7 police station quarters, where Officer Anyidoho stays, he (Anyidoho), expressed interest to purchase the two vehicles which all amounted to One Hundred and Fifty thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC150, 000).
But the first two separate postdated Stanbic bank cheques he issued the car dealers for Eighty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC80, 000) for 24th June, 2016 and Seventy Thousand Ghana Cedis (GHC70, 000) to be cashed on 29th July, 2016 respectively, were all bounced by the bank.
According to Mr. Asare, the officer issued another two separate cheques from UBA bank with a face value of Fifty thousand Ghana Cedis (GHS50, 000) dated 6th July, 2016, and thirty thousand Ghana cedi’s dated 12th July, 2016 respectively after he gave his version of the reasons why his earlier two chegues were not honoured.
However, the Fifty Thousand Ghana Cedi’s Cheque again was bounced at the bank when it was presented to be cleared.
“Later we got a hint from one Kweku, a car rental person who rented a vehicle to C/SUPT/ Anyidoho’s girlfriend called Araba. According to Kwaku, the Toyota Highlander which was sold to C/SUPT/ Mr. Anyidoho has been used to defraud someone to the tune of One Hundred and Twenty Ghana Cedis which the incidents has been reported at Airport Police Station. My source told him me that the complainant managed to secure the vehicle’s chassis number and warned us not to accept the vehicle when they present it back. We then called C/ SUPT/Mr Anyidoho to enquired from him but he denied flatly”, Asare stated in the petition. .
A week later, the petitioner stated, another CID from the Airport Police Station went to the harbor in connection to the same Toyota Highlander which had been used to defraud someone else and requested the owner to report to the station through a towing driver.
“One of my brothers went to the station and met CID Evans where he (CID) showed him documents purported to be the Toyota Highlander’s documents which were fake (sic)”, he indicated, adding that “we called SUPT Anyidoho and told him what transpired and he said he will make sure the CID stops calling concerning the case”.
Officer Anyidoho with his in-laws, the petition said, pled with Ernest to be given up to 30th July, 2016, to make full payment of their money, saying he could not return the vehicle to them because the colour was changed but has since failed to redeem his promise.
The officer admitted his guilt to the New Crusading GUIDE on Monday 22nd August, this year, and said he had paid GH¢30, 000 to PIPS and promised to pay additional GH¢ 30, 000 on Tuesday but as the time the paper was going to press, he had still not paid.
Information reaching New Crusading GUIDE indicates that the said Toyota Highlander has been used to defraud someone else and has been impounded by the Amasaman Police station (Details soon).
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