[ 2015-01-26 ]

‘I was lead Policeman for Rawlings’ – Kofi Boakye
The celebrated Ashanti Regional Police Commander,
DCOP Kofi Boakye has revealed that he was once the
lead police officer for former President Jerry
Rawlings.

According to him, the position offered him the
opportunity to be traveling with the former
President while he was in office.

He, however, says his working relationship with
the former military leader nearly caused him his
job when the then opposition New Patriotic Party
came to power in 2000.

“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,” Boakye told TV3
Saturday.

Commander One as he is popularly called, urged
politicians to desist from interfering in the
recruitment process of the police and other
security agencies.

Source - Starrfmonline

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