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General News on Thursday, March 21, 2019
Source: clbadfmonline.com
2019-03-21
The three Ghanaian Times journalists have been accused by a sergeant Akrofi
Interior Minister Ambrose Dery apologized to three Ghanaian Times journalists who were brutally badaulted by three police officers last week.
"On behalf of my department, I would like to apologize for all that my officials could have done on your behalf," Dery told reporters Wednesday, March 20, 2019: "We are all for freedom of expression ".
In the meantime, the Inspector General of Police ordered the immediate ban of the three policemen.
Malik Sulemana and Raissa Sambou, accompanied by their driver, were badaulted by police officers who were around Kinbu in Accra after one of the police officers who was driving a motorcycle hit the journalist's car and sped at full speed.
In a statement issued by the Police Administration, signed by the ACP, Mr. David Eklu, Director General of Police Public Affairs, on Wednesday, March 30, 2019, the officers were appointed Inspector Isaac Opare Division of Ministries, Accra; Sergeant Ebenezer Akrofi from Accra Regional Police Headquarters; and Lance Corporal Evans Kofi Ntim from Visibility Police in Accra.
"The Inspector General of Police also ordered the regional crime chief in Accra to take over the case investigation of the police station of the Ministry." He also instructed the commander of the police to investigate the case. Accra's car traffic unit to take over the road accidents component Both must submit their reports within a week, "the statement added.
"In addition, the Bureau of Police and Standards Professionals (PPSB) was also tasked to investigate the conduct of police officers who were on duty at the police station of the Ministry when the incident was reported."
"The public will be informed of the progress of the police action," the statement added.
Context
Sergeant Ebenezer Akrofi would have recklessly used his unregistered motorcycle to hit a Ghanaian Times vehicle near the Kinbu traffic light in Accra on Thursday, March 14, 2019, after allegedly blowing up the traffic.
Nissan's front bumper and rearview mirror were broken as a result.
The three Ghanaian Times journalists on their way to the mission of the day were in the vehicle at the time of the incident.
Two of them, Malik Sulemana and Raissa Sambou, were brutalized for involving Sergeant Akrofi in the accident and attempting to film the incident and the exchanges.
The police officer reportedly used his elbow and fist to hit the belly of Raissa Sambou, a nurse mother who gave birth by Caesarean section in December and was rushed to the emergency room after collapsing.
Malik, who was thrown into a police cell for nearly four hours at the police station of the ministries, received medical attention later at the cocoa clinic.
The third journalist, Salifu Abdul Rahman, chief editor, was also heckled by men in uniform, threatened with confiscation of his bag and phone.
Narration
Recounting his ordeal, Malik said that Sergeant Akrofi hit the vehicle of the Ghanaian Times and ran at full speed with his motorcycle. A pbadenger who saw what happened tried to stop him, but the policeman continued.
The Times driver chased and managed to block the policeman around the crossing of Kinbu Traffic Light. He stated that he was getting off the vehicle and was starting to film a video that the officer hated and was trying to pick up his phone.
Irritated by the changing situation, Malik said that the police officer punched him in the face, which caused him to spurt out blood.
Other police officers and a uniformed soldier joined him to kick, slap, insult and head him, he added.
During the scrum, he stated that his phone had been taken by Raissa on the blind side of the police and handed over to the driver.
After searching the phone without success, he stated that he was handcuffed and bundled up in a police vehicle and sent to the police station of the ministries.
"They ignored my request to send me to the hospital for medical care. Lying almost motionless in the police cell, they dragged me out and dragged me down the stairs to an office on the second floor. They took me back to the cell and urged the detainees to beat me up when I insisted on writing my statement only in the presence of my lawyer, "he said.
In the cell, he said that the police boasted that "journalists make noise only when they are badaulted and that it will also pbad".
Malik said his pain had reached an unbearable level when a policeman at the counter called S. Nukunu had repeatedly hit him on the back.
He said he had been released from the cell and received a medical form after Ghanaian Times editor David Agbenu and News editor Matthew Ayinne Ayoo surrendered him. at the police station with David Eklu, Assistant Commissioner of Police. , Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police and Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Effia Tenge, Public Relations Officer of the Greater Accra Police.
In confirming Malik's story, Rahman said the police were undisciplined and were determined to attack the journalists despite public calls to stop them.
He noted that he had been forced to transport Raissa to the hospital to avoid any untoward consequences.
Motorcyclist witnessing the incident, Xornam Jiagge, corroborated Malik's story, adding that the soldier, who was not part of the police team, had joined the men to beat the journalists because he thought the police was attacked.
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