I WAS NEARLY SACKED BY NPP-DCOP KOFI "COMMANDER 1"BOAKYE SPEAKS

The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kofi
Boakye has disclosed that he nearly lost his job as
a police officer during the NPP administration due
to his work schedule which got him close to former
President Rawlings.
Speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues programme Saturday,
DCOP Kofi Boakye described as “surprising” the
notion of many politicians that “they can mingle
with anybody but the security men are forbidden
to do that.”
He explained that he was forced to cut ties with
his long term friend Okaidja Adamafio, the then
Interior Minister in the 90s whom he worked closely
with while serving in the police striking force.
“Immediately NPP came to power I had to cease
talking to him, completely. NPP came to power and
some of us were nearly sacked because there was
that presumption that once I have travelled with
the head of state before; because I travelled with
Rawlings to Libya, once I was the lead policeman
whenever Rawlings is coming I am automatically
NDC.
"So eventually it had to take somebody like Francis
Poku [head of national security in the Kufuor
regime] to say that no we need to work with this
guy… He (Mr.
Poku) is somebody who understood what security
is.”
Moreover, DCOP Kofi Boakye is warning of danger
in the country if the practice where politicians
continue to influence recruitment into the police
service and the other security agencies is not
halted.
He said the development only breeds incompetent
and disloyal police personnel in the service.
Speaking on TV3’s Hot Issues programme Saturday,
DCOP Kofi Boakye called on politicians to put a
stop to the practice and allow recruitment into the
service to be done on merit.
“I think in the long run it will have a devastating
effect on our security, if we don’t allow
recruitments to be based on meritocracy but based
on nepotism, patronage, favouritism, party political
activity,” he said.
Likewise, he warned politicians about police officers
who come to them to declare their affiliation
because such personnel are “not loyal to the state,
they are not loyal to the government and they are
incompetent.”