The Effutu Member of Parliament and Minority Leader Alexander Kwamena Afenyo Markin has questioned the age of the New Inspector General of Police (IGP), COP Christian Tetteh Yuhono, indicating that steps would be taken to dig his age further.
He referenced the statement issued by the Minister of Government Communications announcing the IGP’s appointment when the Minister of the Interior, Muntaka Mubarak was on the floor of the House to answer an urgent question and was accompanied by the new IGP to the chamber to brief the house on some urgent matters.
The Minority Leader indicated in his statement that the new IGP had served in the Ghana Police Service for forty years.
The Effutu legislator was interested to know at what age the IGP entered the Ghana Police Service based on that information.
The new IGP, who is said to be sixty years old, took over from COP George Akuffo Dampare who’s 55 years old and had a few more years to retire. The Minister in his answer took the opportunity to introduce the new IGP.
“I want to congratulate him on his appointment” Afenyo-Markin said.
“Suffice it to say that in the statement from the Minister responsible for Government Communications, he told the country that the new IGP has spent forty years in the service. 40 years as a police officer, so at the right time we will calculate, whether he entered at age 20, 19 or 18, his age and all.
“That is just, by the way, I wish him well; I am only doing the mathematics as to whether the IGP is going to retire very soon. But Mr Speaker, that’s beside the point”.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com