JOSEPH ASAHENE AND GHANA POLICE SERVICE [2001]DLCHRAJ5943

Date	2001-06-30
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/369/98/39
Citation No.	[2001]DLCHRAJ5943

BENJAMIN K. OPPONG

[2001]DLCHRAJ5943
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">JOSEPH ASAHENE <o:p></o:p>(COMPLAINANT)<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
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mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;color:#00B050">GHANA POLICE SERVICE <o:p></o:p>(RESPONDENT)<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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Our Ref: CHRAJ/369/98/39&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; DATE: 30/06/2001<o:p></o:p>

</div>commissioner:<o:p></o:p>BENJAMIN
K. OPPONG DEPUTY COMMISSIONER (PROMOTION/ANTI-CORRUPTION) FOR COMMISSIONER<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>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 &amp; 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.<o:p></o:p>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). This Committee went into the allegations and made some adverse findings
against Mr. Joseph Asahene leading to his dismissal from the Police Service.<o:p></o:p>The
specific allegations made against Mr. Asahene were that:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:-.5in;
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I.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
he collected $30.00 every
month from the Savelugu barrier point;<o:p></o:p><ol style="margin-top:0in" start="2" type="I">
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">he collected $30.00 from Atanga
 Fafra, a Police Constable who was charged with a disciplinary offence of
 "sleeping on duty";<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">he collected 10 cartons of milk from
 one Bediako Enterprise;<o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">he collected 2 cartons of cigarettes
 from Bediako Enterprise; <o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
 font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;
 mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">he sold cigarettes to 2 Dagomba women
 above control price; and <o:p></o:p></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 5pt; text-align: justify; border: none;"><span style="font-size:
 12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-fareast-font-family:
 &quot;Book Antiqua&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;">he kept his shopping
 in the Police Exhibit Store.<o:p></o:p></li>
</ol>In its Record of Proceedings, the Karl T.
Huppenbuar Committee recommended at P.208 that:<o:p></o:p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:5.0pt;
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view of the foregoing, the Committee unanimously considered that Mr. Asahene's
continued presence in the Police Force will be detrimental to its image and
therefore recommends that Mr</main>