The Chronicle, newspaper says information from the Brong Ahafo and Ashanti regions, indicates that there is a ploy by some senior officers of the service, to lobby the government to remove Mr. P. K. Acheampong, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) from office. The campaign is allegedly being co-ordinated by the Commissioner of Police in-charge of Services, Mr. Yaw Adu-Gyimah, who is claimed to have people in government who are championing his cause to be the next IGP. Mr. Adu-Gyimah however told The Chronicle he never thought of being an IGP. He insisted that he and Kwarteng Acheampong were more than brothers since they had known each other since they were 12, adding that they always brainstormed on ideas regarding policing. The paper said evidence captured on tape, however, indicates that the commissioner was making desperate moves to use his friends in government to ditch the IGP. He was heard on the tape bragging that he knew the big shots in both the Interior Ministry and the camp of the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, who were championing his cause. He also claimed that considering the kind of work he had done for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), he cannot be denied the highest Position in the police service, if they came to power. According to Adu-Gyimah various priests had prophesied that he would definitely become an IGP before retirement, The Chronicle gathered that the first part of his plan to become the IGP, was for him to become Deputy Inspector-General Operations and from there, move a step over Mrs. Elizabeth Mills-Robertson, the Deputy Inspector-General in charge of Administration, who is the most senior Officer after the current IGP. Sources within the police Headquarters Management and Advisory Board (HEMAB), indicate that his colleagues were not pleased with the development. They wonder what would happen if he is given such a post. Mr. Adu-Gyimah denied ever consulting a priest, who prophesized that he would be the next IGP. He reiterated his support for the current IGP. The Minister of the Interior, Dr. Addo Kufuor, when contacted, said it was not possible to change the IGP, due to the coming elections. "We are going into elections; we may win, we may lose; I may be here for only five months, h9W can I make someone IGP," he said The Chronicle has gathered that the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) was investigating the matter, but when the paper contacted the Director of CID, DCOP Frank Adu-Poku, he was silent on the matter. Source: The Chronicle