“Simply because the matter was given to the media house, he [Upper East Regional Commander of the Ghana Police Service, DCOP Dr. Sayibu Pabi Gariba] said he felt disturbed and thus insulted me. He even told me in front of the chiefs that I am lucky the chiefs were there, he would have slapped me.”
“He said if I joked, he would let the boys come and beat me and throw me away. Even when my brothers were trying to talk, he shut them up. He called that the family should take me out of the case and bring another person to deal with him.”
Godwin Wuni, brother of the victim of the shooting incident at Karimenga said when he spoke on A1 Radio’s Day Break Upper East Show.
Mr. Wuni alleged that over the past few weeks, in an attempt to get the Upper East Regional Police Command to reimburse the family, the family has received verbal threats and abuse from the personnel of the Ghana Police Service.
“In fact the one who took the receipts to be given to the commander, he [my brother], chat with him and we did not get it easy. When our regent also told us to let our brother call them [the police] and find out what is happening, we told my brother and then he called. When he called, the policeman did not spare him. He was just insulting him for the purpose of involving the media in the case.”
“After the call, he [my brother], went there last week and it was still the same thing. They said they would not pay. He [the police officer in charge of the case] was asking him [my brother] whether he knows that the commander had been transferred.”
“They refused to pay because when they brought the receipts, they heard from the media that I was telling the media that they have not paid yet. [They asked] so what will the media do? They [the media] can only make noise but they cannot do anything,” he said.
It would be recalled that earlier this year, there was some uneasiness in Karimenga, in the North East Region as sa young lady was shot in the buttock after police said she, along with the rider of the motorbike they were on, were suspected criminal elements.
“At about 5pm yesterday, the police detailed to man the checkpoint on the Bolga-Tamale road, at the section of the road known as the Karimenga snap checkpoint were attacked by the community members after the incident had occurred. The incident had to do with the suspicion of criminal movement and an accident that indeed occurred.”
“As the police were on duty, they observed an oncoming motor rider with a pillion rider. They crashed into the barricade as we have it to embark on stop-and-search. Now, when they crashed, the rider managed to flee the scene and the police suspected them to be criminal elements who are about to commit a crime somewhere. Because they saw the police with all the reflective materials, the police decided to immobilise them. A gunshot was fired and unfortunately, it hit the pillion rider who happens to be a lady. The victim was rushed to the regional hospital,” the Public Affairs Officer of the Upper East Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), David Fianko-Okyere said when he spoke on Dreamz FM.
Several attempts to reach the Upper East Regional Police Command, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), David Fianko-Okyere to respond to the allegations proved futile.
Source: A1radioonline.com|101.1 MHz|Moses Apiah|Bolgatanga|Ghana
