A reporter for a local based station in the Sekondi Takoradi Municipal Assembly (STMA) was on Thursday slapped by a military officer during a confrontation at one of the lorry stations in the Metropolis.
The Victim Mr Eric Gyetua, narrating the incident to the GNA said around 14000 hours, he was on board a Trotro vehicle from Pipe Ano to the office but upon reaching 'number nine', a suburb in Effiakuma a passenger opted to alight.
He added that when the vehicle stopped, a city guard whose name was given as Red joined the vehicle and started exchanging words with the driver.
After delaying the vehicle for over thirty minutes the passengers in the vehicle including the reporter became agitated and questioned the city guard and his team for their actions.
The reporter then suggested the team took the particulars of the driver and allow the bus to report later at the appropriate office to avoid undue delay.
He said, a military man in uniform with tag name Donkor who was with the team became angry with the suggestion and begun questioning him, which resulted in them exchanging words for some minutes and that attracted onlookers.
The military man, the reporter said after some time followed the insults with a slap in the left ear.
Onlookers interceded and separated the two who later joined another vehicle and left the scene afterwards.
Meanwhile, an official complaint has been lodged to the city mayor Mr. Anthony K.K Sam who has promised to take the matter up.
Source: GNA
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Journalist turn mediator!!!! They are growing wings beyond their limit and poking their noses into every issue. From the story, it is clear the guy was using his fame as radio presenter to abstract the function of authorized personality. This will surely result in anger and related dirty slap. My advise for journalist is, please stay within your limit of your ethics and be wise as serpent.
I WANT TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT HAPPENED AT THE KWABENYA POLICE STATION AND WHAT HAPPENED AT TAMALE? AND WHY THE PERPETRATORS AT KWABENYA BROUGHT TO JUSTICE AND NOT THAT OF TAMALE PERPETRATORS. FREEDOM AND JUSTICE BUT WHERE IS THE JUSTICE HERE IN THE CIVILIZED WORLD, SOLDIERS REMAIN IN THE BARRACKS AND CALLED UPON WHEN NEEDED AND NOT LET LOOSE IN THE MIST OF CIVILIAN. THE LIKE TO COME OUT IN THEIR UNIFORMS TO FLEX THEIR MUSCLES BY ABUSING,BRUTALIZING, CAUSING FEAR AND PANIC. THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE PAID TO DO IN A SO CALLED DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY.
The black man needs slaps.and not democracy....i like the military style because the Blackman is just like a black goát !!!
Mawusi, Where were you when Rawlings led the military to abuse the whole nation in 1979. May be you were a kid or even not born by then. This has continued till now. Our democracy is ndc/Rawlings type of democracy, half military half civilian. Good day.
So how long are Ghanaians going to sit down for military officers to abuse them? I just read about few incidents in Tamale and nothing has been done about it. The interesting part is the lower ranked officers who failed their o'level or bece or whatever it is exams and entered the service with fake certificate are the ones doing that. Something has to be done to those ***barred word*** military officers who have been abusing poor civilians. They need to be kicked out of the service! What kind of democracy is this?