10 policemen attack 3 journalists from the Ghanaian Times

Ms. Raissa Sambou, a badfeeding mother was transported to the Emergency Department of Ridge Hospital.

Three journalists from Ghanaian weather newspaper that was preparing for the mission of the day were badaulted on Thursday morning by a dozen policemen in Kinbu, in central Accra.

the following a traffic violation and an accident involving a police officer who was using an unregistered motorcycle and the Ghanaian weather vehicle that transported journalists to their various duty stations.

The 10 or so police officers who were not happy that the journalists tried to record the accident and the ensuing exchanges between their driver and the police biker, threw themselves against the journalists and the police. physically badaulted.

Mr. Malik Sullemana, a court reporter, Ms. Raissa Sambou, a general journalist, and Mr. Salifu Abdul Rahman, deputy editor, fully felt the effect of the brutal force used by police officers, which led to the Sending two of them hospital to receive medical care.

Ms. Sambou, a badfeeding mother was rushed to the Ridge Hospital Emergency Department, while Sullemana, who received a piece of the badault was locked up at the police station of the ministries, but was released later.

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Mr. Sullemana (photo above) has since been treated and released from the North Kaneshie Cocoa Clinic, but 18hMs. Sambou was still on admission at Ridge Hospital and was responding to treatment.

What happened?

A policeman driving an unregistered motorcycle hit the Ghanaian weather vehicle around 8:45 and accelerated.

The police rider allegedly hit the left side of the front bumper and smashed the rear view mirror of the Nissan sedan.

The pbadenger who was with the police officer would have seen what was going on and tried to arrest him, but the police officer was later identified by Graphic Online as sergeant Ebenezer Asiedu from the regional SWAT Unit in Accra are gone.

the Ghanaian weather The driver chased and managed to block the policeman on the engine around Kinbu, a few meters from the scene of the accident.

Malik Sullemana would have got off the vehicle and started filming the exchanges between the police officer on Ghanaian weather the driver and the police officer tried to seize the mobile phone but without success.

Irritated by the changing situation, the police officer would have hit Sullemana in the face, and blood was flowing from his nose.

Other police officers and a soldier in uniform who were part of a patrol and who happened to be in the development zone apparently joined their colleague to storm. Sullemana who said that he had been "pushed, kicked, slapped, beaten, insulted and hit on the head."

From Sullemana their colleagues, Rahaman and Raissa Sambou Ebu were also heckled.

Raissa collapsed and was transported to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital for treatment.

according to SullemanaDuring the ensuing scramble, Ms. Ebu retrieved her phone and handed it to the driver – Francis – for him to keep him safe.

He added that the police insisted they needed a cell phone, handcuffs and handcuffs. They placed him in a police vehicle and sent him to the police station of the ministries where he was held for about four hours.

according to Sullemana, the police ignored her request to send her to the hospital for medical consultation and, while they were "almost immobile in the police cell, they took me and dragged me down the stairs to an office located on the second floor ".

"In the office, they asked to take my statement, but I insisted on writing my statement only in the presence of my lawyer. As a result, they sent me back to the cell and urged the detainees to beat me up ", Sullemana said.

He said: "Some S. Nukunu who was at the counter hit me on the back several times. Moments later, ACP David Eklu, director of public affairs for the Ghanaian police, Effia Tenge DSP, public relations officer for the Greater Accra police, arrived in the company of lower-ranking police officers. David Agbenu, editor-in-chief of the Ghanaian Times, and Matthew Ayinne Ayoo, editor-in-chief of News, were waiting at the crime bureau. "

"Then I was taken out of the cell and after the reasons convinced me, I received a medical form from the police so that I could write my statement the next day. I was sent to the cocoa clinic in North Kaneshie, treated and discharged. "

according to Sullemana, the officers who badaulted him m said "Journalists make noise only when they are badaulted and that one will also pbad."

Sullemana The badault allegedly took place in the presence of a senior officer of the rank of DSP who incited his men to continue.

The Ghanaian Times vehicle that the police officer hit not registered motorbike.