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KTI Brutality: Supt Klomegah, ASP Tanko booted out of Ashanti Region

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  • ROGUE LAWYER 7 years ago

    it suppose not to be just a transfer, the commanders must be prosecuted.
    they must give a tangible reason for the assault brutality meted out against the student.
    in democracy and rule of law, if the police actions ca ...
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  • Kaakie 7 years ago

    Transfer will not solve it or is not enough. Wht wll happen to other stds in the districts they r sent to shd similar/ different incidence pops up? Are they gng to brutalised them or wht? These policemen shd be punished.

  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    Author:- SARPONG .....
    Stupid Kwesi Pratt logic. Ndc transition team deceived the Npp transition team by giving them a list of cars supposed to be at the Presidency.

    I believe the Npp transition team also dropped the ball ...
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  • Omanhene 7 years ago

    The police provoked the students and used overwhelming force including LVE bullets.

    All the Police should have used tear gas, and night sticks. Even rubber bullets against unarmed students is un-called for.

  • GAGAGAGA 7 years ago

    ...THEY COULD BE ANTI-ASHANTIS SO THEY HAD NOTHING DOING IN THAT REGION. WATCH THE 2016 VOTING PATTERN; ONLY THE THREE NORTHERN REGIONS AND AS USUAL THE TROKOSI VOLTA REGION VOTED FOR THE KNOWN, CORRUPT AND NATION-WRECKING ND ...
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  • Blantyne 7 years ago

    These terrorist have been brutalizing innocent citizens over the years under fucking NDC John Mahama's watch. They should go to their hometown and do same to their tribesmen.

    Napo deal alos with the lazy teachers who onl ...
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  • Desiree' 7 years ago

    Prosecuted..?i hope the swart team actions will send signal to other schools who carry hooliganism.Most students are lucky to be alive.

  • Nana Yaw 7 years ago

    If they are good policemen as they claim then they should go back to their home regions and continue their good jobs there. Nonsense

  • OLD SOLDIER 7 years ago

    AUTHOR: ABENA-------NDC has ruled Ghana for so many years .When they were given the Opportunity to find oil for us, they couldn't do it.NPP came for just 8 years and found oil for Ghana .We all know how NDC spent the oil mone ...
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  • DAAKYEHENE 7 years ago

    Good comment dear,may you live long.

  • Frank Agyeman Prempeh 7 years ago

    That is true, they are going to continue their good job in their hometowns.

  • DAAKYEHENE 7 years ago

    Do you understand the meaning of prosecution? Look one day it will be done to you n no police will respond. You keep on pampering politicians. Ever Mr M. Opoku assumed office as a minister he think the whole world is under hi ...
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  • togbe 7 years ago

    kwasea daakyehene or whoever, if your relative is among the victims, you wont post this stupid comment. Is that how they were trained to do ?

  • junior k 7 years ago

    Victims ben?oh come on lets stop the nhwehweanim and face the fact.Why should they(students) block a busy road like the Amakom road for no reason? Ghana fo) ne nhwehweanim.

  • Senior Citizen 7 years ago

    That is the change Ghanaians voted for. Only gas will serve in Accra. Transfer them all to their home towns. Bull shit!

  • ROGUE LAWYER 7 years ago

    why are u afraid to be prosecuted before court ? if what you did was not against police ethics ?

    modern day policing is not like the jungle military rule- of lets put fear in them-
    yes your job is to keep law and order ...
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  • CHAMPION ATTA 7 years ago

    SOMETIMES YOUR SUGGESTIONS SOUND SILLY! "PERSECUTE" FOR WHAT? WE WILL END UP PROSECUTING EVERYBODY! YOU JUST SIT IN THE COMFORT OF YOU ROOM AND JUST MAKE IMPRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS. WHAT ARE THE POLICE FOR? DO STUDENTS, FUTURE L ...
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  • As3jm bi nti 7 years ago

    So now police should allow people to do whatever they want, is it how you tell them? Ooh my God what country is this, please police listen and be wise ,next time use your description as a police man thank you.

  • Lalata 7 years ago

    They are still in Ghana and will receive the same pay.

  • Create,loot and share 7 years ago

    It is unwise to pamper students who takes students who take the law into their own hands and misbehave. They had no business blocking the roads and causing traffic jams.This send a wrong message to the students.Children these ...
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  • ROGUE LAWYER 7 years ago

    the action of the police is not done in democracy and rule of law, The best practice should have been a huge fine to the school authorities to be paid into government account. we dont brutalized them to the point of using li ...
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  • As3jm bi nti 7 years ago

    So you support what they did to police men at kumawu, fine it will turn unto there you see

  • Charles Higgins 7 years ago

    Do you want to say they must be brutalised? Is that your answer?

  • imo 7 years ago

    They shld hv arrestd dem There,why go to their school to beat dose who ddnt even went out dat day.Does it mk sense ne honest to ursef.......

  • DAAKYEHENE 7 years ago

    So if u commit criminal offence and u resist police arrest what should the police do? Should they use magnet to arrest u? Are some of ppl wiser than the law which permit the police to use that force?

  • ROGUE LAWYER 7 years ago

    dakyihene , the mindset of police officers like you are the reason ,Ghana police had not able to rise to their expectations.
    let me help u
    why do we have THE CID and what are their jobs ?

    in such a situation, any good p ...
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  • Kaakie 7 years ago

    Students might be wrong but they shd huv punished thm accordingly. The police shd huv communicated with the head so that the appropriate punishment will b given to them. ?Why will the police enter dormitories to beat ppl to t ...
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  • Desiree' 7 years ago

    Learn to live in civility:Lesson to learn

  • DAAKYEHENE 7 years ago

    Don't forget that the student committed criminal offence okay.

  • ROGUE LAWYER 7 years ago

    o mr criminalogy, if the students committed crime , do you as the police officer or commander had the right to kill them ? or brutalized them ? then what have you also committed ?

  • NAPO 7 years ago

    Didn't someone demanded that they were not indigenes of the place and must be booted out? See?

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    Akufo's style

  • Observer 7 years ago

    Only Asante policemen in Ashanti.

  • . ..AGBESI KWESI 7 years ago

    Rogue yooyoo minister at it with his useless dwarfy president. Bloody scoundrels

  • Zoobie-Zoobie 7 years ago

    change has come and it smells awful

  • eddie 7 years ago

    Education minister has left the driver from whose vehicle a student fell and was mashed flat by other vehicles. He should sack him from the Ashanti region otherwise we will not vote for you again

  • Knockout 7 years ago

    This region

  • koku 7 years ago

    I think it make sense, they should go and practice the brutality on their kinsmen...sia s3m

  • Abeeku Mensah 7 years ago

    The Minister of Education, Dr. Opoku Prempeh, must learn to stick to his job and leave police work and or disciplinary activities within law enforcement to the courts. When Ghana's university students act like students, law-a ...
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  • imo 7 years ago

    Dis involves students so he bn éducation minstr shld kp mute.does it mk sense

  • Ideology UK 7 years ago

    Mr big mouth education minister please slow down a long way to go.

  • AAziz Issahaku 7 years ago

    The new IGP and interior minister should know that their ideas of asking MTTD to be directing traffic ???? and should not go to the roads side to inspect vehicular documents is something that is not good for the country, inco ...
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  • Cool 7 years ago

    Why are guys suprised about behaviour of the students, what about the Akufo Addo's trained militant who are seizing toilets, habour, toll booth and school feeding jobs, do we have any sensible minister or leaders? Have arrest ...
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  • Kofi 7 years ago

    If they misconducted themselves, why do you have to transfer them rather than sacking them?

  • Desiree' 7 years ago

    Ghanaians are very funny:Any civilized nation who law enforcement work well to protect civility will encourage hooliganism.Ghanaians should back our law enforcement to contain violence.Playing politics with our law enforcemen ...
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  • castro 7 years ago

    The lGP is doing well but do we have the fund to settle their transfer grant as our financial position is challenge .

  • Solomon Argentina 7 years ago

    Only in Ghana, and they call themselves professional.tweaaaaaa.

  • Desiree' 7 years ago

    Remember:it is police protocols to transfer any police who involve in operation that resulted death but not particularly related to punishment

  • THE CRUSADER 7 years ago

    Well done Mr DAV, these guys were all placed for purposes not out of professionalsm by the previous gov.and because of this,they thought doing for free whatever they want.now we want to see prof.morden policing in Ghana and A ...
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  • Gd citizen of ghana 7 years ago

    Shame on u IGP and the minister and Ashantis. This is pure tribalism ice. People don't want the truth. Now you have send this gd Police officers to the various hometown as a transfer. Ashanti is a lawlessness region and don ...
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  • Afrifa 7 years ago

    Hahahaha! Transfer me to Inner City or Zongos. Ghana Police!

  • buzzy 7 years ago

    Very soon the president and and the acting IGP will sack all the police personnels and form new one.

  • Luze 7 years ago

    Now all Ghanaians should get ready. There will be no police respond to arm robbery, rioting or any form of attack on any citizen. Everything is now freeeeeeeeeeeee, hahahahaha, we shall see where the stupid power lies.

  • ss villa 7 years ago

    Hahaha what has Yaw Osafo Marco to say about NPP police transfers characterized by a bad mouthed education ministers pleasure? : every thing of Nana_led NPP is closely monitored.

  • BRIGHTi BOADU 7 years ago

    THIS IS QUITE UNREALISTIC FOR THE MEDIA TO ASK FOR REASON OF THE TRANSFER OF THE TWO POLICE OFFICERS IN THE ASHANTI REGION. THE IGP CAN CARRY ON HIS TO SUIT THE NATION AT ANY TIME WITHIN THE PARAMETRES OF THE CONSTITUTION OF ...
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  • Luze 7 years ago

    Look this is a political transfer, all stupid comments condemning the two police officers is unacceptable. What signal are we sending to the remaining police officer, not to act when there is such incident? Huuuuuuuuuum.

  • TT 7 years ago

    Awww..so wen wil des politicians stop being on the service neck.
    Bcos of des politicians the work has become difficult to do.. U wil rader b dismissed n dey will live. .

  • nra 7 years ago

    sack or trasfer those aimless polices and soldiers who the dwarf prz and you have orderd to seize cars

  • INNO 7 years ago

    Unprofessionalism (Gbesi) has found it way into Ghana police now. De new IGP is under threat to act according to npp's instruction. Obiri yeboah threatened CID's office n dey ave been reposted, NAPO threatened Tanko n Co. n d ...
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  • Lol.. 7 years ago

    There is no need for transfer....The student were throwing stones at them...the police must be commended

  • Truth 7 years ago

    Nothing short of political and tribal bigotry.

  • Sam 7 years ago

    Primitive tribe with retrogressive mindset. Interesting times ahead. Brute leadership of tantrums. They judge and condemn their perceived enemies on the horrors of their imagination. Their hearts are filled with hatred for no ...
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  • Sundiata 7 years ago

    If you think the Asantes hate you then seek for the answers at your own gate,and in that answers lies you own fate.

  • semantical 7 years ago

    if dey could destroy someo50)ne's eye without question why not

  • Agyaba 7 years ago

    Good for these 2 coconut head cops . Their job was to restore peace and conduct damage assessment if any to sanctions the school.

  • Sundiata 7 years ago

    Good this way,beginning of federal policies.

  • King of powers 7 years ago

    5A 5000 YEARS OLD SECRET JINNI FORMULA THAT UNLOCKS THE MYSTERIES OF WEALTH AND SUCCES “THE HIGH POWER JINNI MAGIC RING” A SECRET FORMULA unwritten until now, Remember the KINGS and their fabulous wealth? Even today the t ...
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  • Alhassan A. Chris 7 years ago

    Now go and brutalize you own people

  • Delly 7 years ago

    Politicians will always make the ordinary citizenry foolish and useless. Service in this regard. God watches over the watch man and will judge accordingly.

  • FACT 7 years ago

    Klomegah Christopher and Tanko Mohammed Yusif if they were to approach the disciplining of the NDC thieves who have raped Ghana to the bones in the manner they did the KTI students, Ghana will be the ultimate paradise of adva ...
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  • Joey Boy 7 years ago

    When the police personnel chased the KTI students to their dormitories how were they able to differentiate between the hooligans and those who had not gone out at all that day? If the police were unable to arrest the perpetra ...
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  • Togbe 7 years ago

    To be compassionate in the service to humanity, A law must be passed for Teachers, Doctors, nurses, policemen, fire officers, revenue collectors and any profession that deals directly with human compassions should be made to ...
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  • kalaanga 7 years ago

    this can only happen in Kumasi. the minister was very reckless in his statements against the police. for all you know the transfer is by coincidence. this our mouth and egos ,..hmm

  • SIMPLY GEORGE 7 years ago

    Taking advantage of the uniform, the killer police officers went on the rampage as the story became the front page news on every newspaper and magazine in the country. I asked my friend Ekow Dadzie, if the NPP and NDC were s ...
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  • King of powers 7 years ago

    5A 5000 YEARS OLD SECRET JINNI FORMULA THAT UNLOCKS THE MYSTERIES OF WEALTH AND SUCCES “THE HIGH POWER JINNI MAGIC RING” A SECRET FORMULA unwritten until now, Remember the KINGS and their fabulous wealth? Even today the t ...
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  • Dome 7 years ago

    What a country.....

  • arabprince 7 years ago

    Why not to any other region but their own home towns (Volta and tamale), is it a resolve to clean Ashanti of non Ashanti's or what? Can't think far

  • patrick owusu 7 years ago

    they deserve to sucked cause they dont corrified to be a police man

  • KWAME 7 years ago

    Mr peatu pls defend the police system and avoid being a political tool because you have a huge reputation to protect. the police is being demobilised by politicians. you men are are almost defenceless and suppressed bthe syst ...
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  • Kwam 7 years ago

    It very unfortunate incident, but is the transfer the the best to do? Even in advance democracies like the UK and US we hear and see of Police unprofessional conduct, but they are not transferred because a Politician want it ...
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  • One Ghana 7 years ago

    I trust institutions not politicians, we need to defend institutions no matter who is at the Presidency. This officers no matter what their crimes are, they must go through the spelt out administrative procedures not at the b ...
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  • Akua 7 years ago

    Whatever the cause of the problem the Police Brutality must be condermed by all civil society. Looking forward to court prosecutions!! Parents must get together and fight the matter in court