The Greater Accra Regional Police Commander DCOP Patrick Adusei Sarpong has denied claims by DSP George Asare that he sidelined him during the Ayawaso by-election.
DSP George Asare who is the East Legon District Commander told the Emile Short Commission that he was sidelined on the by-election day and was not given any task.
According to DSP Asare, he was not given any reason for his exclusion but was told he “shouldn’t worry.â€
DSP Asare claimed that he was going to cast his vote on the day when he was told to go to the scene of the violence and calm the situation even though initially he was not tasked.
“Interestingly, I was going to cast my ballot at my polling station. And this is the first time that I voted in a by-election. In all the general elections, we do special voting and we know where we vote. We vote at Legon in Ayawaso West Wuogon but because it was the by-election, I was finding it difficult to locate my polling center. On my way to look for my polling center, I had a call from my regional commander who didn’t make me part of the exercise that he had heard that some shootings are going on around Bawaleshie closer to the NDC parliamentary candidate’s house so I should go and assist. So I quickly returned [to the police station] and came and mobilized men from the station who were not part of the operation to go there.â€
“I mobilized men and went there with them and I even brought the situation under control,†he said.
This has been denied by the Greater Accra Regional Police Commander DCOP Patrick Adusei Sarpong who claims he contacted DSP Goerge Asare to be part of the assignment on that day but he told him he was taking his child to the hospital and will be unavailable.
"The East Legon District Commander said he was taking his child to the hospital even though he told the Commission that he had gone to vote at the time of the incident".
This claim contradicts what DSP George Asare told the Commission.
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