Angry youth attack Police station at Ejura

About 200 irate youth at Ejura in the Ashanti Region on Thursday, 15 March 2018, stormed the Ejura Sekyeredumase district police station and attacked police personnel on duty and demanded that a driver who knocked down and killed two students with his car be released to them for instant justice.

The deceased were students of the Ejura Islamic Senior High School.

The youth, who were holding cutlasses, vandalised the station with stones and other crude weapons, forcing some of the officers on duty to run for cover.

Speaking about the incident, District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Richardson Kumako, said: “They [angry youth] said they don’t understand why the accident car has been sent to our division, so they wanted the car back to Ejura. The case is not my personal property… so if they doubt, they can go to the divisional commander and he will show them the car and the suspect over there.

“They can go there and see the divisional commander, he’ll show them the car over there…all the time they have been besieging the police station. The police station is exposed to risk, we are also human beings, we have to be very cautious in whatever we are doing”.

He told Accra-based Citi FM that: “We are constrained with manpower. We also have families at the barracks, so when it comes that they are attacking us, how to protect our family is critical.”

No arrest has been made so far.