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General News of Monday, March 25, 2019
Source: ghanaiantimes.com.gh
2019-03-25
Latif Iddrisu
Multimedia Group Limited sued the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and Attorney General for $ 10 million in compensatory damages for alleged badault on his staff, Latif Iddrisu, by police officers on March 27, 2018.
Mr. Iddrisu, the first complainant, a radio-television journalist, was badaulted by police officers while he was covering the news of the arrest of the former deputy secretary general of the National Democratic Congress at the police headquarters.
Multimedia Group Limited, the second plaintiff, stated that Mr. Iddrisu had been badaulted in the performance of his duties on the day of the incident.
The complainants stated that the said occasion or event involved investigations into serious crimes, including the crime of treason, which aroused the public interest and saw part of the population gather at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigation Department. (CID).
In his conviction signed by the lawyer Samson Lardi Anyenini, the first complainant states that while he was exercising at the entrance to the premises of the practice of his profession and his duties / constitutional rights, agents of the first accused had it illegally and without provocation, and had badaulted him.
This is the case of the complainants that the Inspector General of Police did not seek the settlement and compensation he proposed to the National Media Commission (NMC) is not willing to take action to badure the plaintiffs that they are not obligated by the court.
The plaintiff argued that they suffered various economic and other losses as a result of the badault and battery of the first plaintiff by agents of the first defendant.
Having suffered injuries as a result of the first complainant's badault, the complainants stated that Mr. Iddrisu had received medical care, including at Trust and Korle-Bu University Hospitals, where various tests and examinations, including CT scans, X-rays and ears, nose and throat Assessments (ENT) were performed by professional doctors, ENT specialists, medical specialists and neurologists.
The facts are that Mr. Iddrisu was shouted with anger at "getting up" for asking a trivial matter in order to help him establish an accurate account of the event.
The plaintiff stated that he was embarrbaded and that the threatening behavior of the police officer who was standing next to a police crowd control vehicle made him fear damage. The plaintiff asked to know the specific name of the same.
The officer, whose identity is not yet known, violently holds Mr. Iddrisu by his shirt, fired at him and slapped him in the face.
The plaintiff fell to the ground while other police officers subjected him to severe beatings.
The police reportedly used the butt of a pistol to hit Mr. Iddrisu repeatedly on the head.
Mr. Iddrisu was seriously injured and started vomiting blood.
Multimedia Group Limited therefore seeks an order for special damages in the amount of GH ¢ 10 million, an award of aggravated and aggravated damages, an order for general damages and costs, including court costs. .
The complainants also requested a statement that officers of the Ghana Police Service, headed by the IGP and exercising operational control, committed badault and battery crimes at the same time. place of Mr. Iddrisu in the normal course of their work, March 27, 2018.
They also ask the court to declare that the Ghana police service, headed by the IGP and which has operational control, committed the crime of unlawful imprisonment against Mr. Iddrisu during his arrest. job.
The plaintiffs wanted a statement that the defendants are vicariously liable for the acts of officers of the Ghana Police Service.
The plaintiffs urged the court to make an order for compensatory damages in the amount of 10,200.49 GH ¢.
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