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General News on Thursday, March 21, 2019
Source: 3news.com
2019-03-21
The two were captured in a video exchanging shots with a uniformed police officer
A human rights group alleges that the police claim they do not know where the commercial bus driver (trotro) and his driver are located for allegedly badaulting a police officer in Accra.
According to the Human Rights Defense Center (HRAC), although Odorkor District police claim to have transferred the two men from their custody to the police headquarters in Accra, the headquarters officials also denied having received the accused.
The driver, Francis Buabeng, and his companion, Albert Ansah, were arrested last week after being captured in a video exchanging shots with a uniformed policeman at a bus stop around Weija in Accra.
The reports suggest that the driver jumped at a red light and that the officer continued his motorcycle riding to a bus stop where the officer allegedly badaulted the driver who had also descended from the bus. bus to retaliate in the same way.
They were arrested and brought before the Weija District Court on Monday without legal representation, and then taken into custody to appear again on 1 April.
HRAC announced on Thursday that with the Car Dealers Association and the Committed Drivers, they had gone to the Odorkor Police Station to visit the accused and offer them legal representation in the case.
The group claims "an investigator at the [Odorkor Police] However, officer Jonas informed us that the accused had been transferred to the police headquarters. "
According to the group, its representatives went to the police headquarters to investigate and were "informed that the police headquarters did not maintain detention cells for remand prisoners and that the defendants could not be detained".
"We are making this statement, drawing the attention of the general public, to the fact that we do not know where the two accused are," said Cynthia Ampredu-Nimo, Executive Director of HRAC.
The police, said group leaders, "refused and refused" to inform them of the whereabouts of the accused, while they were in police custody on 18 March when they been translated in front of the Circuit Court. in Weija.
The group described the police's attitude as "an obvious violation" of the defendants' right to legal representation, enshrined in the 1992 constitution.
HRAC asks the police for immediate information on the fate of the driver and his companion.
The IGP wrote to the police that "seek immediate access to the accused to enable us to provide them with legal representation".
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