Ghana Police
Consignments of illegal police uniforms have been smuggled into the country using the Kotoka International Airport.
The security breach has triggered questions about how the consignment managed to slip into the country undetected.
DAILY GUIDE’s enquiries showed that the consignment which slipped through did so through the abuse of a certain special arrangement that allows for the clearance of goods so designated on the tarmac.
An obstinate Ghanaian Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) official who asked too many questions succumbed eventually and the unauthorized uniforms found their way into town, specifically to the house of a certain deputy minister closely linked to the John Mahama campaign on the Spintex Road.
Ironically, the uniforms were not consigned to the Ghana Police Service but to private individuals with suspected links to some powerful persons in the NDC.
Six bags of similar uniforms, DAILY GUIDE has gathered, have been confiscated by Lebanese authorities in Beirut by suspicious local Customs officials and were likely to make their way into the country.
The goods were consigned to a certain Prince Kwakye Dakurah while another batch due to land tomorrow could be en route to Ghana ahead of election day.
Another batch is said to have slipped through, having been cleared alongside goods consigned to rlg communications through the Aviance section of the airport.
An unconfirmed report has it that one of the consignments has been seized by the police as investigations into the matter continue.
The Inspector General of Police, Paul Tawiah Quaye, is said to have been briefed about the development and has ordered investigations into the matter.
The illegal police uniforms are finding their way into the country on the heels of the Yaw Boateng Gyan infamous tape recording scandal in which the National Democratic Congress (NDC) National Organiser talked about using persons outside the Ghana Police Service for election day operations, under the guise of National Security operatives.
The issue occupied centre stage in public discourse on security matters but the National Security Coordinator, Larry Gbevlo Lartey, in his intervention, cleared the NDC National Organiser, regardless of the man’s admission that the voice on the tape was his.
The Security Coordinator claimed in his intervention that there was nothing which breached security in the recording.
Kennedy Ohene Agyapong and other NPP members have harped about plans by the NDC to engage thugs and give them police uniforms for clandestine operations on election day.
The Assin North MP has repeatedly referred to such persons as Yaw Boateng Gyan police who should be ignored.
According to him, such persons would snatch ballot boxes away.
While some were convinced about the claims, others took it with a pinch of salt. But with these developments, there is no doubt that some police uniforms are already in town.
These revelations and even seizures are taking place on a day when security agents assigned election day duties are casting their ballots before deployment to their duty points across the country.
A DAILY GUIDE Report