The State has discontinued a case against some demonstrators who embarked on a peaceful protest in Bolgatanga to get the deplorable Bolga-Sherigu-Naaga roads fixed.
It will be recalled that some residents in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region were reportedly brutalized on 12th December, 2019 by the SWAT Unit of the Ghana Police Service for allegedly breaching Public Order Act.
Four Leaders of the demonstrators were arrested in the course of that operation and kept behind bars. They were later arraigned before court and charged for breaching the Public Order Act.
But the State’s Chief Prosecutor, Osman Ndego handling the case at a Bolgatanga Circuit Court Presided over by His Lordship Malcom Bedzrah on Wednesday,22nd January,2020 filed a writ of discontinuation of the case on grounds that the state was no longer interested in pursuing the matter.
The presiding Judge upheld the application to discontinue the case and discharged the 4 leaders of the demonstrators that were standing the trial.
However ,Former Assembly Member for the Tanzui-Zorbisi Electoral Area, Aristophil Atinga in an interview with A1 News lamented about the brutality meted out on them and raised issues of compensation from the State because they were traumatized from the severe beatings by the Police.
“Even though we are free, we are happy but the brutalities that were meted out to us is a thing that worries me. I don’t know why the police are always quick to mete out instant justice such as the one they did to us. It is just this few days that my ears are beginning to hear properly but since the incident happened, I have been virtually deaf because of the beatings”, Mr. Atinga bemoaned.
Source:A1radioonline.com|Joshua Asaah
