Inspector-General of Police George Akuffo Dampare must resign from his position for breaching diplomatic protocols

Inspector-General of Police George Akuffo Dampare must resign from his position for breaching diplomatic protocols by writing directly to the British High Commissioner Harriet Thompson over his reservations with her tweet on the last arrest of political activist Oliver Barker-Vormawor for a traffic offense, Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said.

"What he did is wrong", the former Chairman of the Ghana Football Association told Kofi Oppong Asamoah in an interview on the Class Morning Show on Wednesday, 1 June 2022, adding: "He has no right to deal directly with the head of state of another country".

Dr. Dampare wrote to the British High Commissioner describing her recent "I'll be interested to see where this goes" comment on the arrest of Mr. Barker-Vormawor, as "uninformed, biased, misguided and unwarranted".

After Mr. Barker-Vormawor was arrested in mid-May this year for an alleged traffic offense, the UK envoy tweeted on 17 May: "Oliver Barker Vormawor,