Veep orders IGP to suspend cocaine probe
The Vice-President, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has asked the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, to suspend investigations into the cocaine saga and allow the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to conduct a full-scale investigation into the case.
He has, however, asked the Chief Justice’s Committee to go ahead with its fact-finding enquiry and has given both bodies (BNI AND CJ's committee) one week to submit their reports to the President, John Evans Atta Mills.
The directive followed a meeting held by the Vice-President and the Chief Justice, Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, the IGP, Mr Paul Tawiah Quaye, the National Security Coordinator, Lt Col Larry Gbevlo-Lartey, and the Chief of Staff, Mr John Henry Martey Newman, at the Castle, Osu, on Thursday.
The meeting, at the behest of the Vice-President, was to review decisions made since the revelation at the Accra Circuit Court on Tuesday, December 13, 2011 that a cocaine exhibit had turned out to be sodium bicarbonate (washing soda) which has resulted in a blame game between the Judiciary and the police.
According to the Daily Graphic newspaper, the Vice-President's spokesperson, John Jinapor, said the meeting considered that once both the police and the Judiciary were accused of negligence in the alleged conversion of cocaine into washing soda, the police should suspend their investigation and allow the BNI to rather conduct a full-scale investigation.
He explained that the rationale behind the decision to ask the BNI to conduct the full-scale investigation was to get to the bottom of the matter.
Deputy Minister of Information, Okudjeto Ablakwa explained further that the BNI would carry out an all-encompassing investigation and based on their report findings, government would consider whether to conduct a full-scale presidential enquiry into the issue.
He said the Chief Justice’s Committee would only conduct an administrative enquiry to correct any anomalies in the Judiciary and indicated that the the BNI, the Chief Justice’s Committee and the police had agreed to collaborate in the investigations.
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