Police officers subjected the District Chief Executive (DCE) for Afigya Kwabre South in the Ashanti Region, Adu Poku Christian and a bunch of journalists including one who works for Kennedy Agyapong’s owned Net2 TV at Trabuom a suburb of Kumasi as part of measures to enforce the lockdown.
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According to an eyewitness who confirmed this to news online portal MyNewsGh, the DCE and some journalists were whipped with vehicle fan belts and horsewhips by the angry security officers upon reaching Trabuom Atimatim checkpoint while they were moving from in the vicinity distributing nose masks, sanitizers and water.
“A pick up vehicle was overloaded with some of the security men without recourse to the social distancing protocols. When the DCE sought to find out why and if he could be of help, the commander became angry and violent. He started beating up the DCE and was joined by his subordinates. I had to flee for my life”, the eyewitness told confessed MyNewsGh.
Asked the state of the DCE he responded “he is badly injured, bleeding seriously and as we speak he is at the Regional Police Headquarters where the matter was referred to. They treated my boss as though he is a criminal.”
SOURCE: www.Ghgossip.com
