Some police men on patrol in some parts of Kumasi, have been alledged to have beaten a 40 years old man to death in an attempt to enforce the lockdown impose by the president.
Kwabena Tweneboah Kodua, was assaulted by a patrol team on monday when they went to Konkori near Kumasi in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region to arrest some people who were said to have been loitering around the streets.
The operation was not successful and on their way back, they met Kodua standing infront of his own house.
According to reports from his mother, he was beaten by the police because they claimed he was supposed to be asleep by then not stand infront of his house.
Speaking with Kumasi based Angel Fm, Maame Adwoa Mena revealed her son was beaten whiles standing right in front of his own house.
“They beat him with the barrels of their guns and kicked him on the ground till he started bleeding profusely; they said he was standing in front of his house at a time that he was expected to be sleeping”.
she went on further to reveal that they intentionally planted drugs on him, put him in handcuffs and put him at the back of their pickup truck and drove away.
“They planted ‘wee’ on him and when he protested that he knew nothing about the herbs, they handcuffed him to the bucket of the pick up; they later sat him in the car drove off”, Maame Adwoa Mena told Angel FM.
“We were informed in the morning that my son had been admitted at the Kotwi Clinic; when we rushed there, the policemen said he had fallen off from the bucket of the pickup and smashed his head on the ground.”
“They begged me not to make the matter public or the Police Administration would handcuff him on the sickbed and later jail him when he gets better. I didn’t say anything because I feared the consequences as they had threatened me”.
“The deceased was later referred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital when his condition got worse on Tuesday afternoon, all the bills were footed by the policemen who were now begging me to remain quiet over the matter or they lose their jobs.”
“I don’t know their names but I can identify each of them; they said they are stationed at the central police station,” she said.
The family of the deceased is yet to make an official compliant to the Ghana police service.
