JOSEPH ASAHENE AND GHANA POLICE SERVICE

On 10th September, 1998, the Commission received a letter of complaint with reference No. DKB/4/9/98 dated 4th September, 1998 from Mr. David Kwadwo Bugyei of Afi Chambers & Co., Accra, on behalf of Mr. Joseph Asahene, an ex-Superintendent of Police. On 20 January, 1999, Mr. Asahene informed the Commission that his counsel, Mr. D.K. Bugyei, was dead and thereby leaving the former to pursue the matter himself. The crux of the complaint is that Mr. Joseph Asahene joined the Police Service in 1951 as a Constable III with Police No. 9881 and rose through the ranks to become a Superintendent of Police in February, 1978. He was posted to the Tamale District as the Officer-in-Charge. While still in Tamale and in 1979 - i.e. after 28 years' service without blemish - various allegations were leveled against him. That was the era of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) which set up a Committee called the Karl T. Huppenbuar Committee of Inquiry (Recent Disturbances in the Police Force)....