Social media users have gone gaga over the tension between the Inspector General of Police, Dr. George Akufo Dampare and the British High Commissioner to Ghana, Her Excellency Harriet Thompson. In a post on twitter by Madam Thomson, she expressed her interest in the case of the #Fixthecountry convener, Oliver Barker Vormawor over his second arrest.

In a tweet, she wrote, ”Oliver Barker Vormawor, the convener of #FixTheCountry Movement, arrested again, I understand, for a motoring offense on his way to court. I’ll be interested to see where this goes.”

However, it was so unfortunate for her to receive a four paged restricted letter from the IGP. In the said letter, the IGP asked her to mind her own business.

He stressed that “the tweet is a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961 which enjoins diplomatic missions not to interfere in the internal affairs of their host country.”

Subsequently, in an interview granted by Ghone Tv to Madam Harriet Thompson, she indicated that, she did not expect any reply from the IGP since her tweet did not warrant such. According to the Diplomat, her speech did not mean to cause any tension or malice.

“Ghana is a peace-loving nation where people do have the right to express themselves, where they do have the right to come and protest things that matter to them

“A tweet like that is not going to be the thing that will get people onto the streets, in my view. If I had thought that there was the remotest chance of that, I wouldn’t be tweeting things like that. That is clearly not my intention,” she said on Accra-based Ghone.

The masses have expressed their concerns over this issue. Some are over the view that the IGP was a bit rude and should have done this in a diplomatic way by directing the letter through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Some too think that it was in a right state for the IGP to do that since we a Sovereign country and other people should not be intruding into our domestic affairs.