Ghanaians on Saturday night were shocked over
news reports about the early retirement of Executive Secretary to the Inspector
General of Police (IGP), Superintendent Peter Lanchene Tuubo to contest as
National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate in the Upper West
Region.
The outspoken Police Office is to contest as a parliamentary
candidate for NDC in the Wa West Constituency of the Upper West Region and will
have to slug it out with veteran politician and former Minister of Health, Hon
Joseph Yiele Chireh.
Betteghanadigest.com has come across a reproduction of a live
Facebook video in which Superintendent Peter Lanchene Tuubo bemoaned the level
of corruption in the Ghana Police Service especially those assigned duties on
the highways recounting his personal experience.
According to him, everybody is a potential criminal as well
as corrupt and not the case peculiar only to the Ghana Police Service.
“Last Saturday I was going for a funeral with a friend. While
we were returning from a funeral on a commercial vehicle, we got to a police
checkpoint, the driver knew I was a police officer…I was sitting right by his
side. He asked the mate for GHC5 and when he stopped, he attempted to get down
from the vehicle to meet the police officer, I ordered him to sit and wait for
the policeman to come to the car. He turned and looked at me and I asked him to
sit down. I said do you know I am also a police officer and a senior police
officer? I want to see what the police will do. The policeman came around, got
into the bus, greeted the passengers and asked if there were any problems. He
got down checked the driver’s license and said safe journey and the driver
moved the vehicle. So I asked him why you were so quick to give the policeman
money. What is he selling and what are you buying?” he asked.
