The Ghana Police Service (GPS) has described comments by DCOP Director of Research and Planning Gabriel Prince-Wahb as an “unfortunate statement” and said on Tuesday that the service will play a leading role in ensuring the security of the 2024 elections. argued.
The military also issued a disclaimer apologizing to the Ghana Armed Forces for the comments and dissociating the military from DCOP Waabu’s claims.
DCOP Waab, who took part in a panel discussion on Monday, February 19, 2024 at the launch of Election Headquarters, a Joy News program that provides in-depth coverage of the 2024 General Election, said the Ghana Police Service has learned many lessons from its policing operations. He said he learned. He referred to past elections, particularly the exclusive control of the internal primaries of the New Patriotic Party and the National Democratic Congress by GPS, pointed to their peaceful nature, and attributed it to some of the participants who participated in the 2020 elections. compared with the violent acts of Integrated security agencies.
He said police would strategize from these lessons to ensure incident-free elections in 2024, suggesting the military might have no role at all.
“We may not want to involve the military, so to speak, because it’s not even the police that brought this matter to the public. So we’re not going to involve just the police, prisons, fire service and immigration. “To conduct this election. They will support us. This is our baby,” he said, adding that elections are an internal matter over which the police have clear authority. I explained that there is. “This is a clear issue. All internal matters are the duty of the police and that is absolutely established,” he said.
However, the police issued a statement denying the police, saying that this position did not represent their position.
“The statements made by DCOP Prince Gabriel Warb regarding election security are baseless and do not represent the position of the Ghana Police Service. We therefore wish to completely disassociate the Ghana Police Service from the statement and apologize to the Ghana Armed Forces. The officer is undergoing internal disciplinary procedures within the Ghana Police Service.
“We believe that the Ghana Police Service, under the structure of the National Election Security Task Force and in coordination with all other security agencies, including the Ghana Armed Forces, will ensure peace, security, law and order before, during and after elections. “We would like to state that we are ensuring that the 2024 general elections are no exception,” police said in a statement.
Read the full statement below.
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