COP Alex Mensah hates the IGP

The former Member of Parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini has given his candid assessment of COP Alex Mensah’s testament against the IGP, Dr George Akuffo Dampare. Inusah Fuseini said the truth is that COP Alex Mensah is consumed by an uncontrolled partisan ego.

The former Minister of Lands and Natural Resources under the erstwhile John Dramani Mahama administration said recruitment and promotion in the police service should only be based on qualification and merit. And if that applies then there should not be any sense of entitlement for any position one has not been given.

“Well for COP Alex Mensah I felt and thought his testimony was consumed by an inordinate partisan ego in the sense that police service is a bureaucracy an institution of state that be so, they have interests and values and the recruitment into the service is impersonal and depends on merit and qualification.”

According to Inusah Fuseini, “…a person will ascend to the highest of the police service based on his output and performance and for a person to think that the most overriding consideration for the appointment of an IGP should be whether or not he is a party member or whether he can assist a party to continue to stay in office is subversive, to say the least,” he told JoyNews.

Meanwhile, COP Alex Mensah who appeared before the parliamentary committee investigating the leaked tape that contained a plot to have the current IGP sacked told the committee that Dr George Akuffo Dampare is Ghana’s worst-ever IGP. He said the new leader of the force has not been up to the standards set by his predecessors.

“Honourable Chair, I will not deny that fact today, tomorrow or the next day, I will make that statement again, that the current Inspector General of Police is not managing the Police Service well.”

Confirming his long-held desire to become the IGP, COP Alex Mensah who is also a lawyer and a chartered accountant said he has been lobbying for the IG since 2017. He also said he is a sympathizer of the NPP and thus submitted his CV to Bugri Naabu to aid him in getting the country’s top police job.

“I gave my CV to someone to give to Bugri Naabu for him to lobby for me to be appointed the IGP. We all lobby. I started lobbying in 2017,” Alex Mensah told the committee.