{"id":468635,"date":"2018-02-28T23:14:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/28\/police-sex-scandal-we-will-deal-with-officers-found-culpable-dery\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T23:14:47","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T23:14:47","slug":"police-sex-scandal-we-will-deal-with-officers-found-culpable-dery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/28\/police-sex-scandal-we-will-deal-with-officers-found-culpable-dery\/","title":{"rendered":"Police sex scandal: We will deal with officers found culpable \u2013 Dery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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General News of Wednesday, 28 February 2018<\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>ghanacrusader.com<\/p>\n

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\"DeryInterior Minister Ambrose Dery<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The Interior Minister Ambrose Dery has disclosed that, the Ghana Police Service will deal ruthlessly with any member of its Contingent working with the United Nations at South Sudan found culpable in the sexual abuse scandal.<\/p>\n

Ghana\u2019s 46-member team to South Sudan has been recalled for investigations to be conducted into the allegations of sexual abuse by the contingent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe information received indicates that some members of the FPU (Formed Police Unit) allegedly engaged in transactional sex. This is a clear breach of the U.N. and UNMISS Code of Conduct which prohibits sexual relationships with vulnerable individuals, including all beneficiaries of assistance,\u201d a UN statement said.<\/p>\n

It added: \u201cUNMISS has informed U.N. headquarters in New York of the allegations, which in turn notified the Member State that the matter was being investigated by the United Nations. There is no indication that this behavior is more widespread within the Mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

The recall of the contingent over the claims damages Ghana\u2019s reputation, Security expert Dr. Kwasi Aning has said.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Starr News\u2019 Parliamentary Correspondent, the Interior Minister said the President and Ghanaians expect \u201cour police to maintain the highest standards\u201d wherever they are.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are to obey the laws here and the laws wherever they go and obey the laws and regulations of their engagements with the United Nations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Disclosing that the United Nations agreed to allow Ghanaian Police investigators to be brought in to probe the scandal, Mr. Dery assured that \u201cshould we find any of our own culpable we are going to deal with it completely.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will deal with them ruthlessly according to the law,\u201d he stressed<\/p>\n

His comments followed a call by a former Commanding Officer of the Formed Police Unit of the Service to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) David Asante Apeatu to fire the peacekeepers accused of the crime.<\/p>\n

Reacting to the news, Chief Supt Yakubu said the offense is grievous and must not be entertained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll highly commend the police administration if they are fired. This is a major offense\u2026I think that such people should be fired. They should be fired entirely,\u201d the no-nonsense retired police capo urged.<\/p>\n

He blamed the sex scandal on poor leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat went wrong, I\u2019ll attribute it to weak leadership. Did this matter just occur in a day? I don\u2019t believe so and I think there was a series of it\u2026it means that there might have been a build up to all these things.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we don\u2019t know is that were there any indication that these people were misconducting themselves and if so what did leadership on the ground do?\u201d Chief Supt Yakubu said on Starr Today.<\/p>\n

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