Samuel Atta Akyea, Chairman of Parliamentary Committee, has denied any bias in investigating alleged leaked tape plotting the removal of Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akuffo Dampare.
He was responding to claims by Mr Kwame Gyan, lawyer for Dr Dampare, who accused him (Atta Akyea) of treating his client unfairly.
But reacting to these concerns, the lawmaker told journalists that”I’ve steered the affairs of the Committee without prejudice.”
“The word doctored I used is what did not sit well with him, but what I said is deduced from how it started. Was I not together with my committee members who afforded the IGP the best opportunity to speak to the press?”
“The same chairman who afforded the IGP, together with my committee members, the opportunity to speak is being biased?”
“This is a baseless allegation and the rest of the committee members thought that the lawyer, who accused me on radio, would be bold enough to repeat what he said, and they would have responded, but he didn’t.”
On the reason why the Committee refused members of the Police Service Management Board into Tuesday’s in-camera hearing, he said “It will not be fair for non-witnesses to be present, that was the thinking of the Committee. What’s the meaning of an in-camera? What’s the discrimination here? Why should we admit senior officers to come when they are not going to speak?”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana