The IGP orders the arrest of a city guard, Bruce Lee, who was kicked to the head

General News of Monday, March 25, 2019

Source: ghananewsagency.org

2019-03-25

The Swedru Divisional Police Command arrested and placed in custody Peter Danso, a municipal guard of the Agona West Municipal Assembly, who badaulted a Kwame on Wednesday for allegedly stealing from the town. money to a mobile money seller.

A video that went viral on social media captured the guard hitting the suspect's head from behind while the alleged thief knelt in the opposite direction.

Swedru District Police Commissioner Seth Yirenkyi said in an interview with the Ghana News Agency that the suspect was arrested on Friday by order of the Inspector General of Police.

He added that investigations were underway to establish the facts.

Superintendent Yirenkyi said that Danso, who had been instructed by the Municipal Assembly to collect tolls at a loading station in Swedru, had attacked the boy after a mobile money operator (whose the name had been concealed) had complained.

The city guard was first taken for a police officer, but the police administration, in a press release, said that he was not the only one. one of theirs.

In a statement signed by Mr. Simon Tenku, Deputy Superintendent of Police at the Director General of Public Affairs, the police administration said that a preliminary investigation had established that the victim had been arrested for the 39, offense by civilians and municipal guards.

"The attention of the police administration has been drawn to a video that has become viral on social media, in which a person in uniform is seen kicking a young man kneeling in front of civilians. The person seen kicking the victim in the said video is not a policeman, "the police said in his statement.