Inspector General of Police (IGP) George Akuffo Dampare has expressed his primary concern regarding his role in the Ghana Police Service. His main fear is about the future competence of his successor.
Dampare believes that his successor should not only maintain but also enhance the legacy that he and his team have established, rather than undermine it.
Dampare, speaking at an event organized by the Methodist Church, said, “When it comes to life and the job that I do, my biggest fear is walking out of the position that I find myself in today and not getting someone who is better than me to continue.”
“My colleagues will tell you, and I’m saying that for a divine reason, I keep telling God all the time that if all I’m doing with my colleagues as a team is that you cannot get somebody who is better than us to come and continue by maintaining what we have achieved and building upon it, then why are you allowing us to do it because somebody who is not better than us will come and destroy it anyway? So that is my biggest fear,” he said.
“So pray for us. So that it doesn’t become that when we are no more, we are used as a reference to judge the people who come after us.
We would rather have come to do our work as God has destined, and the next person will do their work.
But we want them to be better so that they will build upon what we left behind so that it will be unto the benefit of everybody and to the glory of God,” he added.