Chairman of Parliament\u2019s ad hoc committee that probed the IGP leaked tape saga, Samuel Atta Akyea, has dismissed allegations of bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Abuakwa South Member of Parliament said he has no reason to disgrace the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr George Akuffo Dampare or any of the officers who appeared before the committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The committee is reportedly divided over the final report as it was signed by all seven members except the Chairman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On the back of this, lead counsel for IGP Dampare, Kwame Gyan claimed Mr. Atta Akyea, who should remain neutral, has shown bias and has his own agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He cited the Chairman\u2019s behaviour following the release of the Committee\u2019s report as evidence supporting his suspicions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Gyan stated that, the IGP has been vindicated and that any attempts by the Chairman to tarnish his reputation will not succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, reacting to the claims on Asempa FM\u2019s Ekosii Sen<\/strong>, programme Friday, Mr. Atta Akyea said he has no time to do evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI really wish I wouldn\u2019t comment on this out of respect for the Speaker but they should enjoy. The tape was not my invention so how can I change the fact or overhaul the truth? So that if I\u2019m no longer in parliament and the case is revisited, I will tarnish my reputation?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhat is the dividend for me to disgrace the IGP? People should think. I don\u2019t see what I will gain in perpetuating evil. He hasn\u2019t offended me or chased after my wife so why I will hurt him? I leave everything to God, else things will not turn out well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to him, he only as the Chairman suggested for certain things to be done but there was no consensus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf as a Chairman, I suggest that we should do something and people disagree and want to make the report public without my signature, then that is it. Why else will the Speaker ask us to go back?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chairman of Parliament\u2019s ad hoc committee that probed the IGP leaked tape saga, Samuel Atta Akyea, has dismissed allegations of bias. The Abuakwa South Member of Parliament said he has no reason to disgrace the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr George Akuffo Dampare or any of the officers who appeared before the committee. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[12487,11264,1885,2701,7960,7489,1973,2001,11700,1445,1881,3061,3874,9765,1198,421,6431,9277,146,6348,594],"class_list":["post-43106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-agenda","tag-allegations","tag-atta-akyea","tag-behaviour","tag-case","tag-chairman","tag-dampare","tag-dr-george-akuffo-dampare","tag-evil","tag-god","tag-igp","tag-inspector-general-of-police","tag-lead","tag-leaked","tag-parliament","tag-police","tag-release","tag-speaker","tag-truth","tag-us","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43107,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43106\/revisions\/43107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}