Indian director assaults staff

The Ghanaian Times carries that a worker of Blowpast Industries Limited in Accra has been brutally assaulted by a director of the company while performing his duties.

John Antwi, 27, a factory hand/packer, was allegedly attacked, slapped and kicked in the lower abdomen and in the groin by Jakdish Lakhiani, the director, because he was packing some polythene rolls at an “unapproved place”.

Antwi, the Times says, is now suffering from injuries to his eardrum and male organ. A medical report from the Adabraka Polyclinic indicates that he is suffering contusion of the left cheek, hyperemia of the left eardrum, contusion in groin and scrotum and pains in the penis on urination.

Antwi told the Times at the Kaneshie Police Station, that around 5.30 pm on August 20, he was packing the finished products of polythene rolls at a designated spot inside the factory when Lakhiani arrived and inquired why he was packing the goods there.

He did not accept his (Antwi’s) explanation that he had been assigned to work there, slapped him and kicked him in the lower abdomen and the groin. Antwi reported the incident to the Kaneshie police who gave him a form to be taken to the hospital.

A source at the police station informed the paper that Lakhiani, was invited to write his statement and then allowed to go.

When the paper contacted Lakhiani, he denied assaulting Antwi saying, “I just gave him a playful knock on the head. I did not slap him; I did not kick him.”