[ 2014-10-22 ]

Police beg ‘Gay Doc’: ‘Don’t kill yourself; we want to help you’
Western regional Police Commander DCOP Alex
Quainoo has expressed fears that the beleaguered
Medical Doctor at the centre of a sodomy scandal
may kill himself due to stigma.

“We want to ensure that the unexpected – I
mean because of the stigma attached to his action
– he does not take his life”, DCOP Quainoo
told STARR NEWS’ Western regional Correspondent
Emmanuel Ohene Gyan Wednesday.

“We want to protect him because he is of immense
importance to the society at large even though he
has committed an offence, but we have to find out
and advise him”, he said.

Dr Sulley Ali Gabass confessed to investigative
journalist Manasseh Azure Awuni that he was indeed
gay and had anal sex with the 16-year-old unnamed
boy.

The minor, in a separate interview with Awuni,
accused the self-confessed gay Doctor of infecting
him with HIV.

The Criminal Investigations Department of the
Ghana Police Service has since taken over the case
after the story broke on Joy FM.

Dr Gabass, in an exclusive interview with STARR
NEWS’ Ohene Gyan, said he was contemplating
suicide due to the stigma he risked suffering in
society as a result of his outing by Awuni.

“Perhaps if there is the need for a psychologist
to deal with him, we will refer him to that
person”.

He, however, said Gabass appears to have gone into
hiding. “Right now Police have taken steps to
locate him but we have not been successful in
knowing where he is…we have gone to look for him
at his residence and at other places. [At] his
place of work, they do not know where he is. At
his residence in Takoradi, nobody is in the house,
and his whereabouts are not known”, DCOP Quainoo
said.

The Police Commander said even though the offence
happened outside his jurisdiction, his unit has
decided to get involved so as to forestall suicide
on the part of the suspect.

“The event happened in Accra and under normal
circumstance – if we take it on the surface –
we would have said that it happened in Accra, it
is not within our jurisdiction, we’ll keep quiet
over it, [but] we have not done that. We are
moving ahead and trying to unravel the mystery
surrounding it, so police have really taken action
and we are still on it”.

“We are trying to get him. It is not that we
want to arrest him and go and incarcerate him; no,
we want to find out why it happened this way, so
we are appealing to him, wherever he is, if he is
hearing me, he should come out and report to me.
Even if he cannot go to the ordinary police
station to report himself, he should go to the
commander and let’s talk one-on-one so that we
know if he has some problem so we assist him in
resolving those problems.

“This is my appeal to him, and whoever knows
where he is, should also help us to get him here.
I assure him that we are not going to do anything
to worsen the situation but to calm down the
situation”, Quainoo promised.

Source - Starrfmonline

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