Ghana Police Service People in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ketan and its environs have expressed shock at the conduct of a police man guarding a senior police officer in the Western region who allegedly raped a 19-year-old banana seller. 

The policeman, Constable Ebenezer Osei, has been dragged to the Sekondi office of the Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVSSU) of the Ghana Police Service by the victim. 

Information reaching DAILY GUIDE indicates that Constable Osei, who is attached to the Police Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) in Takoradi, had been interdicted following the alleged rape case.

According to the victim, she was raped by the policeman who was on guard duty at the residence of the senior police officer at Sekondi Ridge near Ketan. 

The victim told DAILY GUIDE that on April 30, 2012 at about 10am while she was selling her banana in the Sekondi Ridge area she was called by the police guard. 

She said the policeman, who wanted to buy banana, opened the pedestrian gate to the house and let her in.

The constable told the banana seller that he wanted to buy one cedi worth of banana. 

According to the victim, while she bent down to give the banana to Constable Osei, who is not married, he closed the iron gate and suddenly stripped her skin-tight trousers and forcibly had sex with her. 

She indicated that the police man, who was stronger than her, covered her mouth with his hand to prevent her from shouting.

She added that after the sordid act the police man expressed regret at his action and said “I am sorry.”

The policeman then gave her a complementary card with his name and asked her to call him later. 

The victim indicated that after her ordeal, she called her husband one John Kwoffie alias Yaw Adjei, a taxi driver at Tarkwa with whom she has a one and half year old boy. 

She later reported the case to the Sekondi office of DOVVSU where she was made to write her statement and given a medical form to go to the hospital. 

When DAILY GUIDE contacted Frank Asomani, Regional boss of DOVSSU in Sekondi, he pointed out that he was in Accra on Tuesday when the case was reported, stressing that he had not been thoroughly briefed on the alleged incident.