‘We’ll prosecute riders who assaulted cop’

The Ghana Police Service has condemned the action of a group of motorbike riders who assaulted a Police officer who was performing traffic management duties at the Obetsebi Lamptey Roundabout in Accra on, Friday, 21 June 2019.

The group mercilessly assaulted a police traffic warden who was directing traffic around the Abbosey Okai Roundabout in Accra.

An eyewitness who narrated the incident to ClassFMonline.com said the only ‘crime’ of the police officer was that he dared to confront the bikers, who were in the dozens, about why they unilaterally, without recourse to him, stopped all vehicles from all sides so they (the bikers) could weave through the traffic with their corpse, which they were conveying to the Awudome cemetery for burial.

The “rowdy”, “blood-baying” bikers, according to the eyewitness, who was also affected by that particular traffic, sieged the officer and pounced on him with blows and kicks.

Not even the intervention of a fellow officer within the precincts could deter the assailant bikers.

“They would have killed the policeman” and his colleague, the eyewitness said, explaining that it was the timely intervention of another passerby police officer who was accompanying a bullion van of a private bank within the same area, that saved the others.

“The other officer fired two warning shots”, the eyewitness narrated, which, he continued, “caused the marauding crowd of bikers who were bent on killing the officers, to speed off”.

The Police in a statement said the matter is under investigation and all persons who took part in the assault or incited same would be arrested to face the law.

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Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com