Police slaps complainant

Chief Inspector Yeboah, station Officer of the Railway Police Station in Kumasi is reported to have slapped a complainant, Miss Akosua Adutwumwaa, 33, a victim of a robbery case, reports the Daily Guide, which also says the Police Public Relations Office in Kumasi has confirmed the allegation.

The source said Adutwumwaa is a hawker who sells cooked rice. On August 3, 2001, Miss Adutwumwaa was on her routine rounds when one Awura Ama and four others seated under a tree behind the Railway Police Station called her to buy some of the rice.

The complainant, according to the source, responded to the call and in the process of serving them, Awura Ama and her colleagues surrounded her and in the process stole her 500,000 cedis. She reported the matter to the Police and the five suspects were arrested but were later granted police enquiry bail.

The source said in the course of the investigations, the suspects agreed to pay the money to the police for the complainant to come and collect. After two weeks when she was convinced that the amount had been fully paid, she went to the police station to collect the money but the police officer refused her the money asserting that the case had gone to the law court.

Source said Adutwumwaa became surprised and told the policeman that all that she was interested in was her money’s refund. The police officer was however, not prepared to yield to her demand and when she insisted, he got annoyed, slapped her, booted her to the ground and tore her dress.

Miss Adutwumwaa said, some people who were passing by sympathised with her and directed her to lodge a complaint with the police public relations office.