Contractor Charged With Unlawful Arrest

Accra, (Greater Accra) 12 Nov., A 56-year-old building contractor at Adenta who assaulted a carpenter and locked him up in his kitchen for three days is to appear before the Madina Community Tribunal this week. Duke Amewode, has been charged by the Police for physically assaulting and unlawfully imprisoning Edwin Vuvor, the carpenter. Kweku Amuzu, a 32-year-old clerk, who took the key to the kitchen from Amewode with instructions to give Vuvor a ration of two balls of kenkey daily, has been charged with aiding and abetting. They are both on bail. Inspector Daniel Dorkpoh of the Greater Accra Regional Police Public Relations Unit, told the GNA yesterday that Vuvor is a friend of the contractor. He said Amewode's wife, Ms Ivy Zormelo, a nurse, invited Vuvor to fix a lock for her at their Adenta home which he did. A week later, Ms Zormelo asked Vuvor to force open their wardrobe because she allegedly left the key at her office and Vuvor again obliged. On October 28, Ms Zormelo left her marital home following a rift with her husband. At about 0730 hours on October 31, when Vuvor went to visit Amewode in his house, Amewode asked him (Vuvor) whether he was the one who forced their wardrobe open. When Vuvor answered in the affirmative, Amewode picked a baton and assaulted him with it and then locked him up in his kitchen and left for Keta for three days. Amewode instructed Amuzu to give Vuvor two balls of kenkey daily and, on the third day when Ms Zormelo heard of the treatment which her husband had meted out to Vuvor, she reported the matter to the Madina Police who rescued him, According to Inspector Dorkpoh, Vuvor's buttocks and wrists were swollen and he had a scar on his face.