Samuel Awuku, Deputy Communications Director of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), has said the continued stay in office of the Inspector General of Police (IGP), is a major internal security threat for the nation as the 2012 elections draw near. Referring to the IGP, Paul Tawiah Quaye, as a helpless son of a woman, Mr Awuku accused the police boss of succumbing to pressure from government to take unpopular decisions. A police officer has been interdicted this week, on the orders of the IGP, for allegedly insulting Deputy Interior Minister, Kobby Acheampong. The deputy minister had been stopped by the police for alleged over-speeding at Ekumfi Esaafa in the Central Region but Mr Acheampong said he was not over-speeding. He claims his attempt to suggest that the policemen carried their work at a different spot since where they pitched camp was dangerous, rather elicited an insult from one of the policemen. He reported the matter to the IGP who consequently ordered the arrest of the officers and one of whom was subsequently interdicted. Based on the development, Mr Awuku argued that he would not be surprised if the IGP – in the heat of the upcoming elections – succumbs to pressure from the President to steal ballot boxes to help alter the election results just so to save his job. He was contributing to discussions on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem Friday. According to him, the IGP is a weak man and his weakness is contributing to what he termed the failed internal security in Ghana. But the Deputy National Propaganda Secretary of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Solomon Nkansah, dismissed Mr Awuku’s claims as baseless, saying the NPP had the penchant for exaggerating issues and making unjustifiable allegations. He assured the NPP that whatever plans they were putting together to facilitate their ‘all die be die’ agenda during the 2012 elections would be foiled and warned that the government will deal drastically with anyone who tries to disturb the peace of the nation come 2012. The IGP, as far as he was concerned, has been one of the finest Ghana has ever had, saying Mr Tawiah Quaye had injected a sense of professionalism in the Police Service.