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Policeman strips taxi driver naked

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  • Yaa 7 years ago

    He refused to pay bribe

  • DR TRTH 7 years ago

    HOW CAN SOMEONE UNDER ARREST CHOOSE TO DRIVE? WHAT IF HE AND HIS FRIEND IN THE CAB BEAT OR MAIM THE POLICE MAN IF HE HAD AGREED TO HIS REQUEST? THESE DAYS ARMED ROBBERS EVEN DRIVE TAXIS SO THE COP WAS RIGHT TO INSIST THEY WAL ...
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  • British Man 7 years ago

    Shame on you. You must be one of the corrupt officials. How can you defend such shameful practice

  • Stan 7 years ago

    The police man was wrong and he ought to be fired from the force.

    He should have asked him to report to the station by himself. This is a vehicle that can be traced either from DVLA or the Assembly where it is registered. ...
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  • Aaron 7 years ago

    You are not serious...one it will be your family member... Why didn't the cop take the car number and left... Be justice in life and it will help you... They can't even arrest the armed robbers in the country but rather distu ...
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  • APONKYE 7 years ago

    This is the kind of policeman we need. Only 5 of these are needed to bring sanity to Ghana.

    I Hope he turns his attention to the cheats who switch on their hazard lights in order to flout traffic rules.

    I suggest all MT ...
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  • Read before commenting 7 years ago

    You did not even read the news. Idiot

  • Meb 7 years ago

    Yes 100 % for the hazardous V8, these officials should work 16hrs to make living in and traffic management in Ghana better

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 7 years ago

    This is the time for the driver to make money and will not drive taxi again. Sue him and Ghana police big time. Do not settle this out of court.
    The Policeman should be fired ASAP to join the unemployed queue. Then, he will ...
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  • kk 7 years ago

    Brilliant work done.

  • OTIKO 7 years ago

    NOW THEY WILL SEE ALL THESE TAXI DRIVERS WHO SUPPORTED NPP. NOW THEY WILL SMILE IT.

  • MAYOR 7 years ago

    What???? Is this happening in Ghana under competent Akufo Adwee and Mahamadou Bagimi?

  • Kofi K. 7 years ago

    Get your head on and make your brain work. policeman misbehaving is incorrect, got nothing to do with even dead-goat Mahama nor Akuffo Addo.

  • Citizen 7 years ago

    These are the relics of the leadership of your god, John Mahama.

  • APONKYE 7 years ago

    This is what you expect to see under Nana Addo.

  • people dey 7 years ago

    wat dis nonsense

  • agyeman 7 years ago

    YOU CAN SEE FROM HIS NUMBER THAT HE IS AN NDC RECRUITED POLICEMAN. SO RAW IN OUTLOOK AND SUBSEQUENT BEHAVIOUR. THIS IS NOT POLICING AND MUST BE STRIPPED FROM THE POLICE FORCE. HIS BEHAVIOUR IS SIMPLY DISGRACEFUL. WHAT IS THIS ...
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  • Abena 7 years ago

    Ghana police are such a disgrace to their families. Thank God I have no policeman in my family!

  • maree stopes 7 years ago

    majority 'unprof'. 'goro' is their bane.

  • KOO MENSAH 7 years ago

    The Ghana Government should introduce the ticket system whereby offenders would be issued tickets to pay fine. The owner/ driver of the said car name should appear on the ticket and if he refuses to pay the fine.
    A police co ...
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  • British Man 7 years ago

    Hey Koo Mensah take your US nsem away. Is this how peace officer should behave? We talking about police shameful practice and you are talking about US

  • KOFI TIBAA 7 years ago

    Be a gentleman. Have you heard of police brutality all over the world?
    Travel and see! We are talking of experience ok.
    I was talking of solving the problem at hand and look at stupidity comments puting across by you.
    Read ...
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  • Kwadwo Ofuu 7 years ago

    In d US what has owner of the car got to do with d offense if car is being driven by a licensed driver with valid papers? Ghana's law is robbery if owner of car sitting in his hse is slapped with traffic offense committed b ...
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  • KOFI TIBAA 7 years ago

    This is in reference to the system we have in Ghana. Just think. Take time to read and understand the concept of what is been put across.
    You have no idea about making a contribution to an incident. Get a life bro!

  • Adzoa 7 years ago

    Send this fool and mad policemen to the mental hospital for admission. He is mad!!!!. IGP remove this mad man from the public. Do not tell us stories if he misbehaves again!! You have been told to remove him from the public, ...
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  • KOFI TIBAA 7 years ago

    People are not making sense at all on whatever platform they go why.
    Let us see how the education your parents gave you is yielding benefits to the general populace. OMG!

  • Bash 7 years ago

    It is high time some innocent drivers began to blow the heads of some policemen who act like animals on the highways. If I have a gun, I will just blow your head, if u attempt this nonsense....IGP.. get up and rid the adminis ...
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  • Meb 7 years ago

    Provide Standard Procedure for the police stopping a vehicle, there is a big Risk involved in their work if not addressed. They jump into the path of vehicles to stop them when the police doesn't know even if the driver has b ...
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  • Amidini 7 years ago

    This is rather unfortunate and unprofessional conduct. IGP should sanction him

  • Kokoveli 7 years ago

    Incompetent journalism in Ghana. This is one sided story. How can u resist arrest in de first place n dictate to de police man.we need more of such police men in Ghana

  • RANGER 7 years ago

    VERY VERY BAD.

  • true npp. 7 years ago

    This police man has cross the line,the law must deal with him.the policeman is a criminal.that is what they usually do.it is their habit.God will punish them one by one.

  • Kwasi 7 years ago

    IG. OVER TO YOU.

  • Oboy 7 years ago

    Why the driver want to cross the traffic light is not wise is against the law

  • Agya Kwabena 7 years ago

    Asante Apertu should dismiss this foolish policeman straight away.

  • I walked alone 7 years ago

    U r such a stupid fool gyimiii, always u foolish civilians have right while we police have left. I know if it were to be me by now de driver will be in shit. Fool. Dats why I hate you people

  • Charles 7 years ago

    Is the driver not also to be reprimanded for his offence rather than focusing solely on the Police Officer's infractions alone.
    The way the writer puts the story is like he just want the Police Officer to be disciplined not ...
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  • James Mahmoud Awotwe-Braun 7 years ago

    My friend, you should very seriouls get very basic facts straight.

    The driver did offence, but policemen DO NOT PUNISH offenders on the streets. The offending driver should have been sent before the courts and pay his fine ...
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  • GYAMFI 7 years ago

    He said the light was not working and he showed it to the policeman. What kind of policing is going on in Ghana What is the charge of running a Red light. The police man is at fault he needs to be sued.

  • kofi 7 years ago

    It is very bad that this is happening in this century. This shameful & unprofessional policeman must be sanctioned. The taxi driver should head to the law court. Human Rights lawyers, please take this matter up and fight for ...
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  • AZAA 7 years ago

    The cop's educational background should be checked. He might have faked his certificate to gain entry into the training school. I swear

  • nana@ 7 years ago

    Ignorance is killing us in this country.
    The police man did no wrong.
    The taxi driver cannot resist arrest by so doing he was inviting force to be applied by the police man.
    Ghana police are too lenient in discharge of t ...
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  • Nihau 7 years ago

    Am sorry propabably u didn't read the whole story. I never saw anywhere the cab driver resisted arrest. Tell me which one serves better walking to station or going by car? Plz come clear am afraid u not doing justice to the i ...
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  • Eben 7 years ago

    Nice comment

  • Vinss 7 years ago

    Shameful of a police officer,police officers donthave manners,take his car no. Make sure the care is control tru traffic offense cases,what do the police recrut learn bef they pass out to become officers,?

  • Baababora 7 years ago

    Yes and about time too.
    If you believe this taxi driver you are probably from mars.
    They do not obey any traffic regulations .

  • Tekpor 7 years ago

    All these stories are not here or there. The policeman is hungry or was sent by his superiors to collect bribe. Bribe and bribe is the underlying cause of all these. Bribe has taken over the right thinking of the Ghana police ...
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  • Shc 7 years ago

    The driver is not strong enough that is why.

  • Agbalagba 7 years ago

    masa do u guys think seeing a traffic light is red and delibrately pass with the sense of the traffic light is not working is an excuse,if the light was green will he would have stopped with the sense of the traffic is not co ...
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  • King 7 years ago

    Good job done. This nonsense of crossing when the red light is on cannot happened in the Europe. Go to such cross junctions where there's no traffic light and police presence and see what happens. Total confusion and indiscip ...
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  • Hassan 7 years ago

    This attitudes of this Police officers can only happen in the South but not in the North..........Hmm if it were to be in Tamale by now he would've joined the majority ..
    You can't do this to me and go free.

  • Abokuma 7 years ago

    No wonder. The recruitment process into the Ghana Police is to blame for the uncouth conduct of this man who calls himself a policeman. He should face disciplinary action to deter his ilk from thinking that they can miscond ...
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  • NON-ALIGNED 7 years ago

    What is a failed state???? Mine is not what is explained on google or whatever platform..............This is a typical example of the level of lawlessness in our society today, on the path of both the police and many members ...
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  • Corporal Agyei 7 years ago

    I think the police officer is a sergeant right, and so therefore he need to know better. Masa better wakeup don't disgrace yourself and the service as a whole. This is unprofessionalism

  • Boye 7 years ago

    Shame on Ghana Police corrupt

  • Kotakopia 7 years ago

    You all wait and see. The police will level a further charge of "being naked in public" against the taxi driver!!!!

  • Bugfallo 7 years ago

    The storey is one-sided to portray the Police officer in a limelight. If in the normal course of policing a person resists a lawful arrest,the Police officer effecting the arrest may use reasonable force to complete the arres ...
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  • P. OSEI 7 years ago

    FIRE HIM

  • KK 7 years ago

    In fact this incident is SO outrageous and BE taken with all seriouness it deserves. The IGP should look into this matter and train his members to respect the law and the people as well. How should a policeman arrest someone ...
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  • Alex London 7 years ago

    This police man and like most Ghanaian police men and women they are above the law and cannot be questioned. He is lucky to be a police man in Ghana.
    This an assault and not arrest.

  • Alex London 7 years ago

    Dr TRTH you are mad. In a civilised world when you are arrested by police you do not have the luxury of driving the policeman or woman in your car to police station.

  • I walked alone 7 years ago

    In fact I don't know why some civilians r fool's like that, r u de one who puts de uniform to de police. R dey not having a family too. Pray for ur idiotic family and leave de police officer alone.

  • affable 7 years ago

    this is barbaric act not arrest

  • Mr. Johnson 7 years ago

    This police officers in this country act as if they are more humans than we civilians whose taxes are used to pay them. how can such a profession be respected.that police man is the biggest FOOL on earth... small power now yo ...
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  • Kwasi 7 years ago

    the journalist who wrote this is a failure.instead being patriotic and defend the law and the state,you Rather sided with the driver to take out someone who is rather defending the state.yes the policeman might be wrong but l ...
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  • KEK 7 years ago

    This taxi driver should have beaten this policeman or engaged him in a physical fight.
    If this policeman thinks he was doing the right thing, why didn't he pursue the case after the incident.
    How I wish it was me like I wil ...
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  • ROGUE LAWYER 7 years ago

    yes it is an offends to jump the red light, but you have no authority to assault him.
    the driver must be fined and the policeman should face physical assault charges.

    frankly speaking the local government minister should ...
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  • Tweneboaba 7 years ago

    Mayor or whoever u are known, pls be polite and sensible with your utterances. Stupid fool what level of education can u boast of rather than to attack the God chosen instruments.
    Do you have parents at all or u were reared ...
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  • Raymond 7 years ago

    this police deserves to be interdicted.

  • Fox 7 years ago

    Ghana's police are like animals. No difference between them and monkeys. Monkeys are even cleverer than this shit assholes.

  • Fraser 7 years ago

    Delta force ,not Ghana police!!!

  • jaxthay 7 years ago

    this stupid police dude is a fool.

  • Meb 7 years ago

    When did the MTTU ask the police go back onto the street to stop,request or check what? We should get the order in the media, but we haven't. Naked arrest. MTTU should be friendly point out our fault note the vehicle into dat ...
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  • Dacosta Decency Aboagye 7 years ago

    There is no sense in what the police officer did, knowing well that you can Take the registration number of the car and license of the driver.I will plead that those who are defending this undefensive act should stop.

  • Visitghana 7 years ago

    Put the police man behind bars.