Ablekuma North re-run: Police officer allegedly assaults journalist, Accra Mayor testifies

A journalist with GH One Television, Banahene Agyekum, was allegedly assaulted by a police officer while voting was ongoing in the re-run of the parliamentary elections in Ablekuma North.

The Mayor of Accra, Michael Kpakpo Allotey, who said he witnessed the incident, called for the said Police officer to be replaced because, in his view, ” he has a hot temper.”

Also commenting on this incident on TV3’s New Day, legal practitioner Abraham Amaliba called on the Inspector General of Police to withdraw the officer.

“You have powers of arrest, you don’t have powers to be beating people. If the IGP is listening, he should withdraw the man,” he said.

The district police commander just arrived at the station for first-hand information on the journalist-police altercation.”

Voting is currently underway in 19 selected polling stations across the Ablekuma North Constituency in a partial election rerun that will finally determine its Member of Parliament.