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THE Atwima Nwabiagya District Chief Executive (DCE), Nana Asare Bediako, has reportedly slapped the district police commander. The DCE, reports indicated, slapped ASP Charles Adu, the district police boss at his office for refusing to hand over to him a recording of a commotion by some NDC supporters in the area on Sunday. The Nasara club, the Zongo wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), DAILY GUIDE gathered, was having a rally as part of activities geared towards the upcoming electioneering campaign at a school park in the town when the NDC supporters went there to stop them. Though the club had acquired a permit from the police as the law requires, the NDC supporters, DAILY GUIDE learnt, went there with the mission of stopping the rally. Information available to DAILY GUIDE indicated that the DCE, together with some of the NDC constituency executives, went to the venue first with the task of stopping the rally but they were prevented from doing so by the police who were detailed to maintain law and order. After failing to stop the well-attended rally, the DCE and the constituency executives allegedly organized some NDC supporters to go to the place and cause commotion to stop the programme. The paper learnt that when the supporters went to the ground and began causing confusion, with the view to disrupting the event, the police moved in and stopped them. Reports said whilst the NDC supporters were misbehaving at the place, one of the police officers was filming the events as they unfolded, with the view to using the recording as evidence to trace the trouble makers. After being told of such recordings in the possession of the police by the NDC supporters, the DCE, on Monday morning, went to the district police commander and demanded the said recordings. Immediately the police commander retorted that there was no such recording in the custody of the police, the DCE, who is popularly known as �Obama,� allegedly slapped him, commanding him to bring the said recordings. Realizing that he was in for trouble, the district police chief attempted to get up from his seat but was allegedly prevented from doing so by the DCE. When contacted, ASP Charles Adu refused to comment on the matter but his younger brother, one Eric Frimpong, confirmed the incident to Ash FM, a Kumasi-based radio station. Eric said in the interview, which was later played on a number of radio stations in the metropolis, that his elder brother called him to inform him of the incident immediately it happened. According to him, the police commandeer was reluctant at commenting on the incident because as a district police chief, he could not wage a war against the DCE who was the chairman of the District Security Committee (DISEC). When the DCE was contacted, he sounded shocked at the disclosure of the incident and only stated that he was not ready to comment on the matter.