A former police officer and Member of Parliament's Defence and Interior Committee, Peter Lanchene Toobu, says any efforts to remove the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr George Akuffo Dampare to enable the New Patriotic Party (NPP) rig the 2024 election will be fiercely resisted.

The Wa West MP warned that such an action would be a blot on the country's 4th Republic.

Mr Toobu was reacting to a supposed leaked secret tape revealing a plot to replace the current IGP, George Akuffo Dampare.

The tape does not identify any person by name, but the people involved supposedly include a top police officer and a member of the NPP.

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Speaking to JoyNews on the back of this development, Peter Toobu said: “Whoever thinks that way is undemocratic in the brain because if somebody thinks that the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election type of violence can lead the NPP to break the 8 then it means that we don’t want the 4^th Republic.

"Because if anything like the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election resurfaces in the 2024 elections, our democracy will be gone. Nobody will sit and take that,” he cautioned.

He further described the leaked tape as disturbing.

He added that the tape reveals the inner thought of people in and around government and the NPP who are not excited with the work of the IGP.

“If you have about 80 commissioners, each of them wants to become an IGP, so the dream to become an IGP is a motivation to drive them into all kinds of things. The fact that people will lobby to get that position is not a bad thing, but when you are becoming so dirty in your approach, it becomes unprofessional,” he added.

Mr Toobu, however, doubted the authenticity of the leaked tape, saying it may have been generated through Artificial Intelligence (AI).

This he says is because no Commissioner worth the position will stoop low to that level.

“I have seen the audio, I have listened to it and it is quite strange ... I am tempted to believe that it is an application of AI that has done such a thing because if you want to lobby to be appointed as IGP, that is a wrong way,” he added.  

The former police officer asked the IGP to stay focused.

According to him, the police should be allowed to do a professional job likewise the politicians to build a better Ghana.