1. Our attention has been drawn to a four page statement issued by the Ghana police service signed by the IGP George Akufo-Danpare purporting to be a response to a tweet by the British high commissioner about the arrest of Fix the Country Convenor, Oliver Baker Vormawor.
2. The statement further accused the British high commissioner of interfering in the domestic affairs of the country and questioned her confidence in our criminal Justice system and admonished her to mind her own business.
3. We view this misguided uproar by the IGP as a blast in the face of all forms of diplomatic courtesies accrued to the British High Commissioner, It is in bad taste and totally unacceptable.
4. If indeed the IGP perceive without malice that the British high commissioner’s tweet was uninformed in respect of the second arrest of Oliver, the appropriate thing to do was to have officially written to the High Commissioner explaining their side of the story, this could also have been achieved through a curtesy phone call to the diplomat engaging her to clear her misunderstanding.
5. This public display of contempt and ridicule towards the British High Commissioner merely because of a tweet is unwarranted, misguided, immature and an apparent breach of diplomatic courtesies and the IGP must be called out.
6. It is trite knowledge that apart from Ghanaians, the international communities, development partners, donors and diplomatic agencies have all lost confidence in our justice system of this country. The recent arrest of media activists and media practitioners have all contributed towards entrenching this rather sad image of our dear nation and the least any official of this country can do is to work hard towards redeeming the lost image of this country rather than making adversaries out of people who genuinely express concern about the situation.
We therefore call on the IGP to withdraw that misguided statement and apologize not only to the British high commissioner but also to the British government the British high commission and all its staff for this reckless display of contempt towards their diplomat.
Source: Mensah Thompson/Executive Director, ASEPA
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As for Blackman and gyimmiii de3 agye nyame nkoa
F000Iish trokosi comment by a non-entity nation wreckers from NDC. What at all does the NDC and its apparatchiks wish for the country. Is it not true Britain extradited a Muslim cleric whose preaching they thought had the tendency to destabilize the peace of the country. Did anybody fault them for taking that action to protect the peace. Why are they always middling in the affairs of African countries and trying to find faults with every thing we do? And the NDC
Her country should recall her for poking her nose into our domestic affairs. We need peace. Period.
I am going to organize a demonstration for her country to recall her. The kind of money this high commissions and embassies are getting from Ghana is enough to gives some to us a aid. They end up transferring money from Ghana and Nigeria into the UK Treasury. I worked with ono of the embassies in Accra and had chat with a British diplomat who was in Ghana to do some research. In 2001, as at 30th June that year the number of Ghanaians who have applied for visa and refused were 1,250,000 people multiple by £45.00. at that time. This is half year and most of the applications happened in summer that is July and August .They get billions from Nigeria. Nobody should think they are in your country for your welfare, whatever they give to you is your own resources.
Look at that tuuusi,dibiritie,weak minded person talking rubbish. I live in the UK and in 2005 Prince Harry dressed in shirt that has Swastika (the SS symbol of Nazi) in it. The kind of bashing, insults from the public and the major newspapers, TV stations was deadly. They said a royal who is undermining the security agencies It is all because of the second world war. It reminds them of the falling soldiers and civilians during the war. Here is somebody insulting our gallant soldiers as ***barred word*** and if they can not stage a coup, he will do it himself. You have the courage to defend him. In her country UK, wearing a dress with hood to covering your head are even allow the police to stop and search you.
LOOK HOW SHAMEFUL AND WEAKLING YOU ARE ASEPA. SO YOU SUPPORT THE PUBLIC UNINFORMED ALLEGATION THE DIPLOMAT MADE TO DISGRACE OUR COUNTRY'S POLICE FORCE. IT SHOWS YOU STILL LIVING IN THE PAST
How ASEPA are you people mad. I think this IGP is even mild, hand over these guys to the ***barred word*** soldiers to teach typical military uselessness. These so called civil society or pressure or whatever they choose to call themselves are a collection of hustlers without any sense of purpose
Apology my foot... apologise for what? Massa go and hide somewhere make we breathe. These kind of so called ASEPA and its kind are just money making organisations raising funds from foreign organisations and government in the name of not for profit and chopping. IGP must ignore these sycophantic organisations and do his work..
What us the ASAP Man saying??? The IGP should call her or write to her?? Why? She didn't deem it gud to write the ghana police service n u think the IGP should write to her? It doesn't work like dat...she kept on social media n IGP also did same....the ppl who saw her tweet ll see the IGP'S tweet too.....ppl like the asap should desist of gaining simple political point n let the internal security b in their mind. She should mind her own business simple as dat.....IGP should apologize...imagine this...pls come again......No offense no apologies....
What is ASEPA, and what is your locus in administration in Ghana? Inferiority complex. Who and what is her business in Ghana's internal affairs? In other countries, there will be protests for her country to recall her.