The Member of Parliament for Wa West, Peter Lanchene Toobu, has disapproved the action by the irate youth in the Wa municipality who attacked the Wa Police station in an attempt to forcefully release the suspects in custody responsible for flogging some two persons.
Reacting to the incident which took place, Mr. Toobu cautioned that under no circumstance should anyone attack a Police facility to express his or her rage, whatever be the case.
“It doesn’t matter how angry you are, for you to attack a police facility which you have contributed in building, it is neither here nor there.”
Peter Lanchene Toobu
The Wa West MP asserted that anytime there is a rising mob action or anytime there is some form of attack on Police facilities, the security service has to deal with a very uninformed public about what the Police are there for. He added that at times too, it is the public that has to deal with a Police organization that is incompetent and not meeting the expectations of the people.
“Or probably, we are dealing with both. What is happening in Wa and what has happened in Nkoranza and many other places where the youth will mass up to attack the Police facility, it is an action that I have condemned at any point in time.”
Peter Lanchene Toobu
Arrest of 25 persons
The Wa Police arrested twenty-five people for attempting to forcefully secure the release of three suspects who were in Police custody for flogging the victims in the Wa viral video.
The 25 suspects were part of the mob that besieged the Wa Police station to demand the release of Sidiki Osman, Bushiran Khigir and Issahku Mahama who were arrested yesterday, June 1, 2022 and were in police custody.
The irate youth pelted the charge office and adjoining offices with stones and other things. Earlier, sixteen males and two female were arrested by the Upper West Regional Police Command when about thousand aggrieved youth in the Wa Municipality besieged the Regional Police Command and later on seven more persons were added according to reports.
The Upper West Regional Police Command disclosed that the irate youth besieged the station around 9:45 PM on Wednesday June 1, 2022 pelting stones at the Police Officers and anything on sight. The youth also blocked streets and burnt car tires in protest of the arrest of the three suspects.
Meanwhile, the three persons arrested by the police for their various roles in the public flogging of some two lovers in Wa have been granted bail. The three, Bushran Khidir, Issahaku Mahama and Naa Sidiki Osman were arraigned before a Wa Circuit Court on Thursday afternoon.
They were granted bail with five sureties each at a sum of GH¢3,000 and are to set to reappear on Monday, June 13.
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