IGP removes INTERPOL-Ghana boss from office

IGP MOVES INTO ACTION

…removes INTERPOL-Ghana boss from office while investigations into the sharing 

of US$49,000 continue

By Aaron Okyere

Unlike his predecessor P.K. Acheampong, the Inspector General of Police, Paul 

Tawiah Quaye, has indicated in practical terms that he would not cover-up for 

police personnel involved in one form of professional misconduct or the other. 

As a result, he has ordered the two bosses of INTERPOL-Ghana, Chief 

Superintendent Amponsah Asiamah and his deputy, Superintendent Peter Abila, to 

step aside while investigations continue into the withdrawal and sharing of the 

$49,000 ransom from the accounts of the Commissioner of CID of the Ghana Police 

Service.

Assistant Superintendent of Police, Nketia Yeboah who is the Third-in-Command at 

this INTERPOL-Ghana has thus been tasked to act as head of the unit. 

Daily Post’sintelligence within the Ghana Police Service says many police 

personnel are happy with the bold steps taken by the IGP to ensure that the two, 

Asiamah and Abila, do not interfere with investigations by the Police 

Intelligence & Professional Standards (PIPS) bureau.

It will be recalled that the Daily Post broke the story about how the 

INTERPOL-Ghana bosses withdrew US$49,000 ransom from the account of the 

Commissioner CID and shared it among themselves.

When the Daily Post interviewed the INTERPOL-Ghana boss, Amponsah Asiamah after 

the case was published, he admitted having the money withdrawn from the bank but 

denied that it has been shared by he and others. He said he has the money with 

him as exhibit to be used in court and thus invited Daily Post’s editorial team 

to come over the next day to see it for themselves.

Yet, two days later, in the Ghanaian Times, a faceless police investigator with 

INTERPOL-Ghana contradicted Amponsah Asiamah’s assertion that the money was in 

his possession when he said the $49,000 had been lodged in the Police 

Commissioner CID account and the money was still there.

Meanwhile, Daily Post intelligence has established that to cover up their act, 

the INTERPOL-Ghana bosses phoned the businessman in Nigeria who paid the ransom 

to come to Ghana for his money.

The businessman paid the ransom of US$100,000 after a dangerous Nigerian 

criminal, Emmanuel Emeka Nwangu ‘M’ and his Ghanaian wife, Patricia, who had 

been working for him, kidnapped his three-year-old daughter and brought her to 

Ghana.

A phone call from the two criminals directed the Nigerian businessman to pay the 

US$100,000 ransom into their Ecobank account which he did. The two then withdrew 

part of the money and deposited it into their Barclays bank account.

INTERPOL-Ghana which was on the heels of the two criminals obtained a court 

order to have the account frozen at the bank. They later took another court 

order to withdraw the money which they deposited into Police CID Commissioner’s 

account and then later cashed all which they shared among themselves.

Meanwhile, two people with Emeka Nwangu who were arrested after they tried to 

withdraw GH¢100,000 from the account were allegedly released after the Nigerian 

criminal sent a bribe of US$9,000 to the police bosses.

Intelligence available to the Daily Post reveals an attempt to muddy the waters 

and confuse Ghanaians by laying the blame of the saga at the door-steps of one 

David, said to be a BNI operative who has been relieved of his job for allegedly 

investigating the case involving the kidnapping of the three-year-old without 

authorization from his bosses.

With the child back safely to her father in Nigeria, the two key issues that are 

begging for answers are the whereabouts of Emeka Nwangu ‘M’ and why the 

INTERPOL-Ghana bosses shared the ransom of US$49,000.00. Investigations 

continue.

Source: Daily Post