A military officer has been detained at a guardroom at Burma Camp for allegedly leaking a CCTV tape which captured persons suspected to be members of the Invincible Forces, a private security wing of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), beating up a senior police officer at the Flagstaff House in Accra.
The 45-year-old military officer, name withheld, was on duty at the Flagstaff House when the alleged assault on the senior police officer took place on 9 January, two days after Nana Akufo-Addo’s investiture, and is suspected to have leaked the CCTV clip which has gone viral on social media.
Narrating her husband’s ordeal on Class FM on Monday, 20 February, Abena (pseudonym) said her husband had been detained without food and water since Friday, 17 February.
“He has been detained for 72 hours now with no food or water,” she told show host Moro Awudu.
“He called me on Friday that he had been called to report to the Flagstaff House but he didn’t know…why he had been called. So he left home in the afternoon and around 3:00pm, he called me that they were taking him to the office of the BNI with a couple of other soldiers.
After that call, I didn’t hear anything from him again. His phone went off… At about 11:00pm, I had a call from someone that they had released some of the soldiers taken to BNI to report today (Monday February 20) and that my husband was one of those who were being detained.
So I started getting worried because if you have not charged him with any offence why do you keep him there?”
Abena narrated that she had an anonymous call from a Good Samaritan that her husband had been taken to Burma Camp where he was detained. According to her, she visited Burma Camp to give him food on Saturday evening after he had gone the whole of Friday and Saturday morning and afternoon without food or water.
Asked what the husband had told her when she visited him at Burma Camp, Abena replied: “He said he was questioned about how that video got out and he was accused of being on duty on that day, so he was a suspect for leaking the video,” adding: “But they don’t have any proof, so I don’t see why they should keep him there.”
“He was on duty on that day and he wasn’t even aware something like that was going on. He has nothing to do with this issue.”
She said her husband was “devastated and down” and did not understand why he was being treated that way when she spoke to him. He was, however, not tortured or manhandled.
When the EBS team contacted the Director of Operations at the Flagstaff House, Lord Commey, for government’s side of the story, he replied via text: “I don’t think I’m the right person to talk to.
From your narrative, I think it’s a purely security matter which I don’t think I’m competent enough to speak on. I may be of help in some other way or form.”
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Source: classfmonline.com
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where is the video clip?
Granted that the soldier leaked up the video, does it warrant his placing in guard room when those perpetrators of the said crime are walking free. If the perpetrators have been dealt with and this soldier is being disciplined, that could have been a bit reasonable. But you leave the perpetrator and punished an innocent person. Only under nana addo. I am going to send this case to BBC and Aljazeera.
I think nana Addo should do better than this. This is scandalous.
Hey, is nana addo not confirming the idea that he is a lawless and violent person? How can an assault take place in the seat of government and the offenders be spared, but the one who blew the whistle is rather punished. Incidentally, the one who received the assault is a police man doing his assigned job. None of he so called invisible forces has been arrested for their lawless act but a soldier is being punished for doing nothing, and nana addo sits down and does nothing about it. Is Rawlings watching this. How about those so called wise men. Very soon Ghana would be ungovernable and we shall all see how ediotic we have been. Two months in his administration, he has done nothing to improve the lives of Ghanaians except invisible forces beating people up and seizing vehicles haphazardly. Is this what Ghanaians voted for? The cedi keeps rising as well as prices of goods, instead of doing something about it, soldiers and police men are being brutalized and maltreated for doing their work. They don't even know that if you touch one soldier or police unjustifiably, chances are you asking for upheaval. They should very careful because Ghana is not a banana republic. Even Mahama who was not a lawyer never supervised over these barbaric brutalities and injustice.
We told you so. They started all these things with acids and cutlasses in their party. Tweeeeeeaaaa!
What is all this ***barred word***? Where is the rule of law? Goodness!
Hmmmm....Invissible Forces..What a babaric act. NPP..Political Dictators
surprisingly the people who attack the police officer we are not told have been apprehended by the suppose person who leak the tape has been apprehended. smh. what a country we live in and what a government we have on our hand