{"id":362823,"date":"2017-10-18T07:07:55","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T07:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=362823"},"modified":"2017-10-18T07:07:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T07:07:55","slug":"ive-not-been-treated-fairly-after-29-yrs-of-service-bright-oduro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/ive-not-been-treated-fairly-after-29-yrs-of-service-bright-oduro\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve not been treated fairly after 29-yrs of service – Bright Oduro"},"content":{"rendered":"
The former Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID),\u00a0 COP Bright Oduro, who was asked to proceed on leave\u00a0few months to his retirement,\u00a0is accusing the police hierarchy of unfair treatment.<\/p>\n
He bemoans why he was not given a fair hearing over allegations that he is protecting activities of some land-guards in\u00a0Accra, after 29 years of service.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”ZagWPdgxNS4BOBMnDZhvCMJnqSZU10Cx”]The\u00a0 Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, is on record to have openly accused Mr. Bright Oduro of having connections with land-guards whose activities have been described as illegal and worrying by Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
While dismissing those allegations, ACP Oduro said the Police service should have given him a fair hearing before arriving at the decision to relieve him of his position.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think that I deserve to be told to go on leave in such an abrupt manner because there was no reason for me to proceed on leave except that I have heard somewhere that I am pending retirement and I have an accumulated leave and therefore I should proceed on leave. I have no idea why I was asked to proceed on leave except what I read in the Daily Guide that I am not managing land-guard issues well. Kennedy Agyapong has even been waging a relentless verbal assault on me since April; three months into my appointment as Director General, and I believe the reason to go on leave stems from this verbal assault that links me to land-guards.”<\/p>\n
“Who are these landguards that I associate with? There are so many questions about this thing. It should have been well responded to and I should have been given the opportunity to respond to them. I do not think it’s fair for anyone to ascribe those things to me. When the Miotso incident happened last year, I was not the Director General, and as I speak to you, the docket sits at the AG’s office so why would he mention it?”<\/p>\n
The Inspector General of Police, David Asante Apeatu, in a document cited by Citi News yesterday, asked Bright Oduro’s deputy, ACP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, to act as the Director General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).<\/p>\n
ACP Addo-Danquah until her appointment, was the second in command at the CID and was in charge of the newly established Financial Forensic Unit to investigate cases of financial crime in the public sector.<\/p>\n