Editor-in-chief of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jr., is unable to comprehend a recent revelation that suggests that the top hierarchy of the Ghana Police Service requests the services of Malams to accomplish challenging tasks.
During one of the public hearings by a Parliamentary Committee tasked with probing a leaked tape on plans to oust the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Dampare, one of the accused noted that it was suggested that mallams be engaged to aid the removal of the IGP from office.
During his appearance before the parliamentary committee investigating the matter on Monday, Superintendent George Asare suggested that Bugri Naabu recommended the use of Mallams (spiritual practitioners) to aid in the removal of the IGP.
He claimed that Bugri Naabu advocated for both physical and spiritual measures to have the current IGP removed, citing previous instances where he had facilitated individuals in obtaining spiritual assistance for securing high-ranking positions.
“It was Chief Bugri Naabu who invited me to his office. I wasn’t lobbying for anybody. Chief Bugri Naabu made an emphatic statement about this thing, I want to quote him verbatim, but it will be difficult. All that he was trying to say was that this thing, we have to fight it, both physically and spiritually. And then he gave examples of people that he helped them fight for the positions spiritually. It was a private conversation, I don’t want to make it public here.
“But the spiritual one, he went further to show us which places he can go. So it was on the premise of this that I made the statement that Alhaji, this one, you are the spiritual controller. Because you [Bugri Naabu] made us understand that I didn’t even know that, when you are fighting for a position, you have to fight it in two ways, both spiritually and physically.”
He stressed, “I said that as for Master [COP Alex Mensah] I don’t think he will buy into this idea of fighting this spiritually, because he’s a Christian. He [Bugri Naabu] mentioned some Imams, that can help pray for him. Some Imams can help him with prayers. Chief Bugri Naabu insisted that he has to also see some Mallams. He recommended about three, some in the North, and some from his village. It was Chief Bugri Naabu himself that came forth with that suggestion,” Supt. Asare insisted.
Reacting to this information during an interview with Kwame Sefa Kayi on Peace FM, Kwesi Pratt Junior noted the laws have been discarded when it comes to the steps to be taken for the removal of the IGP.
For him, it is unbelievable the spiritual warefare that must take place for an IGP to be removed.
“This tape has got chills over my spine. I am shocked. I ask myself, in Ghana, if we are going to remove the Inspector General of Police, are the things being mentioned part of the things that happen?
“Even now Mallams are part. Is it not true, Kwame? Mallams can even be added. Ei. God damn it. Unbelievable.
“We have thrown away what the law says we should do when we want to remove the IGP. If not all, some Police officers have thrown it away completely.
“My own friend, Bugri Naabu, is an integral part of the removal of the IGP, ei Ghana,” he said.