Police officers subjected the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Afigya
Kwabre South in the Ashanti Region, Adu Poku Christian and a bunch of
journalists including one who works for Kennedy Agyapong’s owned Net2 TV at
Trabuom a suburb of Kumasi as part of measures to enforce the lockdown.
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According
to an eyewitness who confirmed this to known news online portal MyNewsGh, the DCE and
some journalists were whipped with vehicle fan belts and horsewhips by the
angry security officers upon reaching Trabuom Atimatim checkpoint while
they were moving from in the vicinity distributing nose masks, sanitizers and
water.
“A pick up vehicle was overloaded
with some of the security men without recourse to the social distancing
protocols. When the DCE sought to find out why and if he could be of help, the
commander became angry and violent. He started beating up the DCE and was
joined by his subordinates. I had to flee for my life”, the eyewitness told
confessed MyNewsGh.
Asked the state of the DCE he
responded “he is badly injured, bleeding seriously and as we speak he is at the
Regional Police Headquarters where the matter was referred to. They treated my
boss as though he is a criminal.”
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