It used to be the case in the Ghana Prisons Service when military officers were brought to head the service.
That phenomenon has changed, and the government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) appointed Madam Matilda Baffour-Awuah as the first female director to head the Ghana Prisons Service.
It is in this regard that personnel of the Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) began crying for one of their own to be made head, to replace the senior police officer who has been acting all these years.
The senior police officer, Commissioner of Police (COP) Dr. Peter A. Wiredu, who has been bragging that his services are indispensable, hence his continuous stay in office even after the expiration of his contracts, will soon be shown the exit having incur the wrath of His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama, this paper’s Flagstaff House sources have hinted.
According to The Informer’s intelligence sources at the seat of government, President Mahama, unhappy about some serious allegations being leveled against Dr. Peter Wiredu, particularly that of visa fraud, is said to have directed that he (Wiredu) be removed immediately.
The action, one of the sources indicated, is also in response to the pleas of personnel of the service, who all these years, have been crying for one of their own, whether retired or in continuous service to be appointed to head the service.
“The President is not happy with reports received about the current Immigration Boss and wants him replaced immediately,” this paper’s impeccable source added.
According to the source, the President is surprised that Dr. Peter Wiredu is still at post when under investigations alleging his involvement in visa fraud following a petition received by the President’s office from a middle-level officer of the immigration service.
“Why this man should be allowed to stay in office and continue to cause disaffection for the President, when he has no respect for authorities. In fact, running the service as his personal property, he (Wiredu) decided to recruit a huge number of people into the service contrary to the number approved by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning; and this has occasioned the media reports of how some newly-recruited personnel have not been paid for over a year now,” another top officer at the Presidency revealed.
“The earlier Dr. Wiredu is sacked, the better it shall be for government since he has decided to do things his own way,” the highly placed source concludes.
With allegations of Dr. Peter Wiredu’s involvement in visa fraud, we reproduce an earlier petition filed by a middle-level Immigration Officer, Mr. Joseph Anthony Ayienaab when he alleged to have collected huge sums of money from some prospective travelers for our readers’ judgment.
PETITION AGAINST DR. PETER ALFRED WIREDU, DIRECTOR GENERAL OF GHANA IMMIGRATION AUTHORITY, AND COP ROSE ATINGA BIO FOR UNFAIR TREATMENT
I am a Deputy Superintendent of Immigration (DSI) stationed at the headquarters, Accra. I was transferred from the Western Region sometime in 2011 to the Headquarters.
When I was in the Western Region, I had a friend by name Kofi Marfo who is the nephew of Dr. Peter Wiredu, the present Director General of the Ghana Immigration Service. Upon my transfer to the Headquarters, Kofi Marfo introduced me to his uncle, Dr. Peter Wiredu, who is my boss and I have been running errands for him since.
Your Excellency, sometime ago, Dr. Wiredu asked me to look out for prospective travelers who needed Visas to travel to the United States of America since according to him he could facilitate the acquisition of Visas for them to travel. I obliged and within some time I was able to get 159 prospective travelers for him. Dr. Wiredu also asked me to find people he could recruit into the Ghana Immigration Service.
Dr. Wiredu demanded between Ghc1, 500.00 and Ghc2, 500.00 each for the acquisition of the visa and Ghc1, 200.00 from the 22 prospective recruits into the Ghana Immigration Service. All monies paid were handed over to Dr. Wiredu.
Upon receipts of the monies, Dr. Wiredu failed to procure the Visas for the people and also failed to recruit the 22 people into the Ghana Immigration Service. The result is that I came under constant attack by the people both at home and in the office and therefore could not go to work any longer. I reported the issue to Dr. Wiredu who promised to refund the monies to the people but he has failed or refused to do so.
Your Excellency, when the issue became too difficult for me to handle due to the fact that Dr. Wiredu decided not to pick my calls again, I decided to confide in a friend to assist me but unknown to me this friend also knows Dr. Wiredu very well. In fact I told my friend that I wanted to seek the assistance of the media in resolving the issue with Dr. Wiredu. Unfortunately my friend leaked the information to Dr. Wiredu and he quickly lodged a complaint with the Criminal Investigation Department {C.I.D} of the Ghana Police Service and I was arrested. I was detained for four days before my statement was taken and I was eventually granted bail. Later, I was told by the investigator on the case that there was going to be a meeting between Dr. Wiredu, my-self and COP Rose Atinga Bio, whom I got to know knew something about the Visa and the recruitment exercise organized by Dr. Wiredu through me. The meeting never came on because the two of them failed to turn up any time we were supposed to meet. Later I was informed by the investigator that the meeting was postponed indefinitely.
Your Excellency, as at now, Dr. Wiredu has not settled his indebtedness to the people and would not pick my calls. COP Rose Atinga Bio is also not picking my calls. However I have been put on half monthly salary although I have not been officially interdicted and no disciplinary proceedings has been commenced against me either.
Your Excellency, I am deeply saddened by this development and I feel cheated and embarrassed by the behaviour of my boss Dr. Peter Wiredu.
Your Excellency, I therefore wish to petition you as the President of this country whom I know believe in Justice and fairness to order full scale investigation into the matter and cause justice to prevail.
I hope my Petition will receive early attention to enable me resume work and cater for my family.
I remain
Yours faithfully,
JOSEPH ANTHONY AYIENAAB
