Mr. Samuel Atta Akyea, Chairman of parliament’s ad hoc committee probing the alleged clandestine plot to oust the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Dr. George Akuffo Dampare, has dismissed allegations of bias against him.

Speaking to the media after an in-camera hearing on Tuesday, October 10, Mr Atta Akyea described the allegation as “baseless.”

Mr Atta Akyea's statement comes on the back of accusations by lead lawyer for the IGP, Mr. Kwame Gyan, that he Atta Akyea is biased in his handling of proceedings.

According to Kwame Gyan, the chairman who ought to be neutral to witnesses appearing before the committee, has shown bias, insisting that Atta Akyea has a hidden agenda in the matter.

“He has his own agenda. He will be granting media interviews to the extent that after one sitting, he went out there and said the extended tape submitted by Bugri Naabu, which had not been played at the committee, has been doctored. Very prejudicial comments," said Kwame Gyan.

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But according to Atta Akyea, also MP for Abuakwa South, it is disappointing for a bias allegation to be made against him.

He noted that “On the contrary, the majority of Ghanaians believe that I have steered the affairs of the committee well. If anybody is having indicators that I am going to manufacture evidence against the IGP, it does not accord with common sense because what we are doing is being recorded.”

He stressed that aside from the media – Joy FM, no allegation of bias has been “made to me or the committee openly.

The legislator said he expected the IGP's lawyer to raise the issue of bias so he replied him, however, he failed to do so. This, he explained, is because the IGP's counsel “on reflection knows that he has been unfair to me.”

“…Why am I being biased? The bias according to him, has got to do with what I said. There is a first tape if I understood it, and it is that COP Mensah and Supt. Asare are saying that this is not the full tape. So I said if they say it is not the full tape, and later, someone says this is now the comprehensive tape – the inference that they are trying to say is that the first one was doctored. So maybe it is the word I used – doctored does not sit well with him. But I could say it is deductible from how it started and the comprehensive tape that they brought later,” he explained.

He further questioned how he could be biased if he and the committee afforded the IGP the opportunity to speak to the press and put across his case.

“The same Chairman who afforded the IGP to speak to the press is being biased is a baseless allegation," he said.