Another police officer resigns to contest NDC parliamentary primary
Detective
Corporal John Evans Ayerakwa-Kumordzi, 35, a Police officer attached to the
Akropong District Command in the Eastern Region, has resigned from the Ghana
Police Service and picked nomination form to contest the upcoming parliamentary
primary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He has tendered in his resignation letter to the
Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, in accordance with the
Police Service Act in February this year, which was accepted giving him the
impetus to pursue his political ambition of serving his constituents in Okere Constituency
in the Eastern Region.
“I have been in the Police Service for eleven
years, I joined the Police service in 2008 but I resigned in February this
year, after the Police Academy, I was posted into my constituency which I have
worked for 11 years.
“I have been with my constituents for the past 11 years because I was a detective, I have been with my constituents for a very long time and I know their challenges, I think this is the right time for me to lead the constituency to help them have a better living condition.
The former Police officer was part of three other parliamentary hopefuls who have picked the nomination forms with the intention to contest the primary in the constituency.
Detective Corporal Ayerakwa-Kumordzi, a former Criminal Investigation Department (CID) operative, is hopeful of winning the primary and subsequently recapture the Okere constituency seat which was a stronghold of the NDC in 1992 until 2001 when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) won and occupies till date, with the incumbent Member of Parliament (MP) Dan Kwaku Botwe.
He has also vowed to ensure that he garners enough votes for the NDC flag bearer John Mahama in 2020 to win the presidential election, the development comes few days after the Executive Secretary to the IGP, Superintendent Peter Lanchene Tuubo retired voluntarily from the service to contest the Wa West parliamentary primaries of the NDC. –starrfmonline.com
