Dr. Adam Bonaa, an analyst specialising in security and safety matters, has called for the withdrawal of Samuel Atta-Akyea, who chairs a 7-member ad hoc committee responsible for probing the recently disclosed contentious audio.

During a media engagement , Dr. Bonaa made this request in response to allegations put forth by George Akuffo-Dampare, the legal counsel representing Ghana's Inspector General of Police (IGP). Dr. Bonaa pointed out that Mr. Atta-Akyea has veered away from the committee's designated scope of work.

“Yes, it would have been proper for the Speaker to ask him to recuse himself because, like I said, if you go and play the video, you can see the chairman almost turning the thing into a per trawling exercise on the sea and when you come on the land, it’s like galamsey, using crude methods to do what you have not been asked to do when you’ve been given a term of reference.

"So it will be proper if the speaker asks him to excuse himself but I believe the speaker knows what he is doing,” he stated.

In a recent interview, Lawyer Kwame Gyan voiced apprehensions about Mr. Atta-Akyea's behaviour, claiming that the committee's chairman was making statements that could potentially undermine the impartiality of the investigation.

Mr. Atta-Akyea, who concurrently holds the position of Member of Parliament for Abuakwa South, has faced considerable scrutiny for his management of the case.

Mr. Gyan accused Mr. Atta-Akyea of conducting himself as if he were the sole commissioner in charge of the inquiry, and he expressed his team's unwillingness to proceed under such circumstances.

“He has his own agenda,” Mr. Gyan asserted, hinting that Mr. Atta-Akyea has revealed his biassed intentions for all to see.

Reacting to the allegations against the committee chairman, Dr Bonaa said the observation by Dr Dampare’s lawyer can be confirmed from a careful analysis of the proceedings and the conduct of the chairman.

“For those who watched the on-camera sittings, when one of the senior police officers said he was a member of the NPP and he was asked whether he was a card-bearing member of a political party, just when he was about to answer, the chairman actually restrained him and told him not to answer. The video is there.

“So I believe that the Speaker of Parliament should actually collect all these videos to do an assessment of the performance of his chairman. He stopped him from answering and thought that was being biassed.

"You are there to collect facts so if a question is put to a witness and the witness decides to answer, you don’t tell him not to answer because you don’t act as a counsel for the witness but by and large, that was what he was doing,” Dr Bonaa noted.

In a notable incident, a recorded conversation featured three currently serving police officers and a former regional chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), outlining a plan to oust the Inspector General of Police (IGP).

This recording, which has received extensive media coverage, captured the senior officers seeking the political figure's support in orchestrating the removal of the IGP before the 2024 general election.

These officers, who identified themselves as staunch NPP members, voiced their apprehensions regarding the potential negative impact of Dr. Dampare's tenure as IGP on the party's prospects of retaining power.