Chief Executive of the National Identification Authority (NIA), Prof. Kenneth Agyemang Attafuah, has joined many who are calling on the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department, Commissioner of Police (COP), Tiwaa Addo-Danquah to resign and save her dignity.
Prof. Attafuah said COP Addo-Danquah would have saved her integrity by not waiting to be removed.
Calls for COP Addo-Danquah to step down followed news of the four missing Takoradi girls confirmed dead by DNA testing.
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Before the shocking news, COP Addo-Danquah said the girls, Priscilla Blessing Bentum, 21, Priscilla Mantebea Koranchie, 18; Ruth Love Quayson, 18, and Ruth Abeka were alive and their whereabouts were known.
However, the police have announced that they are dead.
Asked on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show whether Mrs Addo-Danquah must resign or not, Prof Attafuah said:
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“In this country, we are slow to do the needful by ourselves, although I know sometimes the clamour [for a public officer to resign] happens where there is no sound evidential basis for it…but where individuals themselves know that they have goofed, that they have – by their acts of omission or commission – generated a situation that is untenable; that undermines public confidence in the institution that they lead and that also have the potential to affect the future dynamics and effectiveness of the institution, they [must] do the honourable thing of not waiting to be fired but to tender their resignation and to apologise in grace and exit the scene so that pain is assuaged, confidence is assured and innovation is triggered,” he said.
Source: Adomonline.com|Adom News
