The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service has commenced investigations into the behaviour of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) K. Azalekor, who arrested three people in connection with a video in which Azalekor engaged in an altercation with dancehall artiste Shatta Wale.
ASP Azalekor of National Patrol Department (NPD), Accra Region, last Friday arrested one Maame Afua and sent her to the Legon Police Station.
In a video that has gone viral, the self-acclaimed dancehall king is captured engaged in a hot exchange of words with a policeman at East Legon.
The police officer is seen ordering the artiste and his friends to get into their cars and follow him to the police station.
Shatta, after unsuccessful attempts to persuade the policeman to let him and his friends go, flared up, raining words on the police officer for dealing with a public figure like him in such a manner.
Investigations by The Finder indicate that the senior police officer made a report that on Thursday at about 15:20pm, while on patrol with his team, he had an encounter with Shatta Wale, a popular musician at Mempeasem, near Trinity Theological Seminary, Legon.
According to him, during the encounter, the suspect, Maame Afua, assisted by the daughter of her madam, who is currently on the run, took a video of what transpired at the scene and circulated same on social media.
ASP Azalekor, in his report, said he arrested Maame Afua to inform police for further action.
When contacted, Maame Afua told The Finder around 3pm last Thursday that the policeman stopped a car with a number plate as SHATTA 2.
According to her, ASP Azalekor sat in the SHATTA 2 car for a while and alighted.
She explained that, minutes later, Shatta Wale came to the scene with his Range Rover and parked it in the middle of the road.
She said discussions between the musician and the police officer turned into heated exchanges, and Shatta Wale drove off and was soon followed by the Shatta 2 car and the police vehicle.
Maame Afua explained that the heated exchanges drew her attention and she came out of a hairdressing salon where she works to witness the altercation between the musician and the peace officer.
According to her, the police officer returned to the scene of the incident the following day to show her a video.
The policeman told her that since she appeared in the video, they are looking for the one who shot the video.
Maame Afua said she told the police that she did not take the video but it is possible the video was shot by her madam's daughter.
She stated that the police drove the hairdresser to the madam's house with the intention of arresting the madam’s daughter, but the lady was not home.
She told The Finder that the police then took her to Legon Police Station and detained her and said she would only be released when the one who shot the video is arrested.
The hairdresser said she called her madam, who in turn called Agbeko Kumordzi, a neighbour, to go to the police station to help her.
Kumordzi told The Finder that when he got to the police station, a woman who is a customer of the hairdresser was at the police station seeking why the hairdresser was arrested.
According to Kumordzi, one police officer attempted to assault the lady for insisting to know why the hairdresser was arrested.
He said a taxi driver who drove the lady to the police station prevented the police officer from assaulting the lady.
Angered by the action of the taxi driver, Kumordzi said two police officers cocked a pistol and a rifle, pushed the driver to the ground and detained him too.
He said the police officers also detained the woman who was insisting on knowing the rationale behind the arrest of the hairdresser and taxi driver.
Kumordzi alleged that Azalekor ordered that the persons detained should not be granted bail.
However, he said a crime officer, named Aboagye, who came to the Legon Police Station on monitoring duties, ordered that the three people detained be granted bail to report on Saturday.
Maame Afua reported to the police station the following day and one officer accompanied her to the hairdressing shop to inspect where the vehicles in the video were parked during the incident.
Shatta Wale gives explanation
Meanwhile, Shatta Wale has come out with an explanation for his reaction towards the police officer during an altercation that was captured in a short video circulating on social media.
The musician, born Charles Nii Armah Mensah Jr., indicated that one of the law enforcement officers called him a rascal, a description he deems very offensive.
Source: The Finder
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iS IT A CRIMINAL OFFENCE TO TAKE A VIDEO OF an incident.? The video taker should rather be commended. The police should rather use her as a witness or her video clip as testimony against the suspect
I bet shatta has bribed him to go and arrest the woman....SH***THOLE COUNTRY
I watched his so-called graphology video and became more angry. Was he blaming the one who filmed the incident. If the police man caused the arrest of the person, I think the police man should be reprimanded or SACKED. As for the Shatta who, he should be Charged to resisting arrest and prosecuted SHARP! Where laws work, there is no selective justice. Go to the US and Canada. OJ Sampson, Mike Tyson, Justine Beaber and the like were all imprisoned when they were caught by the laws!
The police officer should be SACKED and Shatta What should be CHARGED FOR obstructing a peace office in his/her duty!
Abuse of power by a bully of an officer in uniform! They think we are scared of them? No way! This clown should be made to face the full rigours of the law for such intimidating behavior towards a defenceless citizen! Naaasenz! Buuullo!
The reason why Nana Addo is keeping someone such as Ken Dapaa as head of National Security beats my imagination. The guy has no clue at that office. Such a sensitive position should not be toyed with. If some of us abroad could pick sensitive security information from Ghana at a time the National Security has no clue of what’s going on, then we are doomed as a nation. Rawlings just don’t talk when it comes to matters of Security. Why do you think people like Kwesi Pratt, Kofi Adams who are doing the bidding of NDC will attack Rawlings that strong when he (Papa J) said “ I hope the currently security disruption is not Politically motivated”.? Did Papa J mention the name of any Politician or Political Party? Yet the NDC communicators descended heavily on him. This Plan was within the known of some of us way before it came to light. Now tell me, why must we pay people such as Ken Dapaa at the National Security? Painting Ghana as insecure is one of the main agenda for NDC to score points against the ruling NPP. No wonder Otumfour was forced to resurrect the Delta Force matter at a time it had settled. Did anybody question why that time? Nana Addo must wake up because it doesn’t matter what you will do if people are not safe and secured in their home country, nothing matters. Get Competent People in Place of National Security. Period!!!
INSTEAD OF GOING AFTER ARMED ROBBERS TO HELP MAKE GHANA SAFE, LOOK AT WHAT THIS UNPROFESSIONAL POLICE ASP IS DOING. HARRASING AN INNOCENT YOUNG LADY AND SHOWING HIS STOOOPID POWERS TO OTHERS. THESE ARE THE ENEMIES OF STATE. THE NPP MUST BE VIGILANTE ABOUT SUCH SERVICE PERSONNEL
This police service keeps on denting their image on daily basis why?