Police investigates mob assault on military personnel

Kumasi, Aug. 29, GNA- The Ashanti Regional Police Command has instituted full-scale investigations into the mob assault on a military personnel at Krofofrom in the Kumasi metropolis on Saturday. It has to this end called on anybody who has any information on the incident to assist the police in arresting the culprits of the grisly act or report promptly to the office of the Regional Commander in Kumasi for necessary action.

This was contained in a release issued by the Public Relations outfit of the Command signed by Inspector Mohammed Tanko in Kumasi on Tuesday. The statement condemned the alleged action by the mob, especially on a military team that allegedly went to Krofofrom in the Kumasi Metropolis on that particular night on a mission of arresting a suspect who had dressed in military uniform.

It said this was in view of how some unscrupulous persons in the past dressed in either police or military uniform and paraded themselves as such and succeeded in robbing or extorting money and other valuables from members of the public.

The command gave the assurance that security agencies would not take the law into their hands and harass innocent people in the area but would conduct a thorough investigation into the incident and bring the perpetrators to book.

"Anyone with information that will assist the police to arrest the culprits of such grisly act should report promptly to the office of the Regional Commander in Kumasi for necessary action", the statement said. In another development, the police said the military person in question, name withheld, is not dead but on admission at a hospital and responding to treatment.