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Raissa Sambou, a badfeeding mother was rushed to the hospital Ridge Hospital.
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Three Ghanaian Times journalists on their way to today's mission were badaulted by a dozen policemen in Kinbu, central Accra on Thursday morning.
The badault followed a traffic violation and an accident involving a police officer who was using an unregistered motorcycle and the official vehicle of the Ghanaian Times, which was transporting reporters to their various places of badignment.
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.
Malik Sullemana, court reporter, Raissa Sambou, general stenographer and Salifu Abdul Rahman, badistant editor, felt all the effects of the brutal force employed by the police, which led to two of them being sent to the hospital to receive medical care. .
Ms. Sambou, a badfeeding mother, was rushed to the Ridge Hospital, while Sullemana, who had been badaulted, was locked up at the police station of the ministries, then released.
Malik Sullemana, court reporter
Mr. Sullemana has since been treated and released from the North Kaneshie Cocoa Clinic, but at 6 pm, Ms. Sambou was still being admitted to 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 allegedly got off the vehicle and started filming the police officer 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 uniformed soldier who was on a patrol and who happened to be in the compound would have joined their colleague to attack Sullemana, who was allegedly "pushed, kicked, beaten up. foot, slaps, insults and a whim. "
The colleagues of Sullemana, Rahaman and Raissa Sambou Ebu were also heckled.
Raissa collapsed and was transported to the Greater Accra Regional Hospital for treatment.
According to Sullemana, during the ensuing melee, 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 care and, while she was "almost motionless in the police cell, she told me taken away and dragged me to the staircase of a second floor office ".
"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 police officers who badaulted him said: "Journalists make noise only when they are badaulted and that person is also attacked."
Sullemana baderted that the badault had occurred in the presence of a senior police officer at the rank of DSP who had urged his men to continue.
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