Dennis Annor
A resident of Mamprobi, Dennis Annor has expressed with sadness the manner in which he was arrested on Saturday and put in cells for questioning Inspector P.K Nuamah of the Mamprobi Police Station.
Dennis claimed that he humbly suggested to the Inspector that it was inappropriate to instruct a truck driver who was on his rightful side of the Guggisberg Avenue to divert.
According to an eyewitness Joyce Ackah and Dennis Annor, the Inspector ordered his police assistant “baby police” to immediately cuff him for suggesting to him what was right and wrong in his line of duty.
It is alleged that he was forcefully dragged to the station by the waistband, in the presence of helpless onlookers who could do nothing but inquire from Inspector Nuamah the wrong of the young man.
He alleged that he was locked up for three hours “without access to my family or legal service, before my eventual release,” he said. Dennis added that anytime he asked if he could contact a relative, the Inspector would rain insults on him.
He said that he was made to pay GH¢100 before he was released.
Annor says he feels disgraced and traumatized by the experience and was even forcefully made to admit to obstruction in the police statement, when all he did was to humbly ask from Inspector Nuamah whether it was appropriate to ask a driver to use a route which he didn’t intend to use.
He lamented that it has become extremely difficult to walk in his own neighbourhood without having to deal with the embarrassment of people pointing fingers at him and staring at him.
Joyce said this was not the first time an officer of the Mamprobi police station has bullied a civilian for questioning his or her authority. She added that the police feel they cannot be questioned and so they bully civilians who question their actions.
Ernest Pappoe