The Ghana Police Service has arrested Uber driver Patrick Asiedu for making an audio that went viral on social media claiming that some police men planted narcotics in his car.
In a statement the police described Asiedu’s allegations about the conduct of some officers as “false” and a “total fabrication”.
The statement signed by Assistant Commissioner of Police Grace Ansah-Akrofi, Director of Public Affairs, said the suspect, Patrick Asiedu, who was arrested on Wednesday, was an Uber driver and not a Doctor as he claimed in the audio.
In the audio tape widely in circulation, the man who had introduced himself as Dr Patrick Asiedu claimed that he had been stopped by some Police officers who allegedly planted substances suspected to be narcotics in his car and attempted to extort GHS20,000 from him.
He also claimed that he called his brother who is a military man, and he came with seven of his men and they intervened and when fought with the police men, and that was how he got out of the web of the supposed criminal police officers.
Asiedu also claimed the matter was first reported to East Legon Police and it then traveled through Accra Central Police and to the Narcotics Control Authority where the police officers eventually apologized.
But the statement said the supposed military intervention and the alleged fight between the Police officers and the Military described in such dramatic detail in the audio tape were all false and a figment of the suspect’s imagination.
The police also said the vivid descriptions of having been taken to the Accra Central and East Legon Police Stations as well as the Narcotics Control Commission were equally false.
“The claims of fingerprints being taken are also untrue,” the statement said.
It said Patrick Asiedu, however, alleged that he had once witnessed a similar incident to what he described in the audio tape, happened to one of his passengers.
The statement said meanwhile, in another audio tape that had come to the attention of the Police, the suspect alleged to have met with Dr George Akuffo Dampare, Inspector-General of Police.
It said that claim was also false and should be disregarded.
The statement said investigations were still ongoing and the suspect who was currently in Police custody would be brought to face justice.
