nspector-General of Police Mr James Oppong Boanuh has denied claims by former President John Dramani Mahama that the government is bribing Police Officers with GHC 1,000 to vote for him.
Mr Mahama alleged that all Police officers have been paid thousand cedis and two thousand cedis ahead of the special voting next week.
He indicated that these officers will pocket the money and still not vote for the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The former President who was speaking to a gathering in the Tamale North constituency said “I just learnt from a group of police officers that they have paid monies into their accounts because they know that they have destroyed the morale of the Police service.
He added “Promotion in the service is based on your political colour instead of your merit and he thinks that he can buy our police officers with Thousand or two thousands cedis just because an election is coming . They will take that money and they will vote against you”.
But speaking in an interview with Ghana News Agency, the IGP denied the allegations of vote buying made by John Dramani Mahama.
The IGP said similar allowances were distributed to the Police during the COVID-19 lockdown period and unlike previously when such allowances were paid on tabletop and some personnel got short-changed, the Police Administration decided to pay in into their Bank Accounts.
He said the GHC 600 paid into the accounts of the Police personnel are their allowances for electoral duties for five days with the additional GHC 100 meant for sewing uniforms which arrived late hence the inability of the Service’s tailoring department to sew them.
Source: MyNewsGh.com/ Ayeh Offei-Akoto/2020