Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey - NPP National Chairman
Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Thursday December 6, 2012.
The News Patriotic Party (NPP) wants President
John Dramani Mahama to order National Security Coordinator Col. Larry Gbevlo-Lartey
(Rtd) to step aside to pave way for investigation into the importation of police
uniforms.
They said with Friday’s crucial general elections just
at the corner, the posture of the security capo leaves much to be desired
adding that his continuous stay in office is putting Ghana’s security in
danger.
Addressing a news conference in Accra yesterday,
NPP National Chairman, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey said “We were exposed to
the disquieting information that police uniforms were being imported into the
country consigned, not to the police, but to a private company.”
Flanked by Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku, the NPP’s Chairman of Security Committee for
Election 2012, Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey said “In the matter of these uniforms it
would seem that Gbevlo-Lartey stopped the police procurement process and insisted
that his outfit would, very unusually, handle the importation of uniforms for
the Ghana Police Service.”
He said: “The uniforms he has ordered are being
delivered in a piece meal fashion so that it is impossible to take inventory
until the conclusion of the order sometime in the future. In the meantime,
these uniforms are in the system.”
Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey said that the statement on
the infamous Yaw Boateng Gyan tape and “the strange, suspicious circumstances
of the importation of these uniforms create a sense of disquiet.”
The NPP fears that should any of these uniforms
get into the wrong hands or masqueraders attempting to use them, then citizens
are advised that “genuine police men and women have their names and numbers on
their uniforms and carry an official police ID card and a special elections ID
cards.”
He added that “Citizens may demand to see these
cards when they suspect that they are dealing with a masquerader.”
He said the situation has come to this because the
national security has always been partisan in their approach to issues adding
“It is in his job to protect Ghana and Ghanaians, not to expose us to any
dangers.”
“We call on President Mahama to act and restrain
his National Security Coordinator Col. Gbevlo-Lartey from putting our security
safety at risk.”
The NPP Chairman said “in his politicization of
his job he has caused spectacular failures, embarrassing Ghana and putting us
at risk of danger and discomfort.”
“He failed to detect the notorious Christmas pants
bomber (Omar Farouk Abdul Mutallab), who started his journey of what would have
proved to be one of the worst terrorist acts from Kotoka International Airport.
He has failed to prevent Ghana being cited as a source of destabilization of
our neighbour, Ivory Coast. A few weeks ago he allowed Ghana to be used as the
source of one of history’s biggest attempts to smuggle narcotics into Great
Britain.”
The NPP also remembered Col. Gbevlo-Lartey who they
say was “the Commander of the 64 Infantry Battalion who sought to use his
command to create fear and panic in the election of the year 2000.”
The NPP said the President cannot allow the
security capo to “taint and sour whatever memories Ghanaians will have of your
presidency. Get him under your control.”
He told NPP supporters to be vigilant and resist
any intimidation adding “We will not allow bad people to frighten us out of our
God-given birthright, our right to vote. Our right to decide who will manage
the affairs of our country for the next four years.”
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