Armed youngsters allegedly attack police Inspector?

Obuasi, Aug 27, GNA - Police Inspector Francis Kyirafage of the Obuasi Divisional Motor Traffic Unit was on Thursday night rushed to the Kumasi Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital following several gun wounds he received allegedly from angry youngsters from Akrofoum, near Obuasi.

The emotionally charged youngsters who arrived at the police station in three buses with offensive weapons allegedly fired on Inspector Kyirafage in front of the Charge Office.

Eyewitnesses told the GNA that some of the pellets hit the head and other parts of the Inspector. The youngsters allegedly smashed the windscreen and side glasses of a Hyundai saloon car with registration number AS 3305 C and damaged a vehicle belonging to the Fomena police.

The youngsters next besieged the Obuasi Central Police Station and forced the police cells open for inspection. Eyewitnesses said the youngsters were looking for one Mr Moro whom they claimed had been detained for his own safety by the police.

Mr Moro who was said to belong to one fashion of a chieftaincy dispute in Akrofoum was alleged to have beaten some Akrofoum youngsters whose other members are looking for him to seek revenge.

As Mr Moro was not found in the cells after inspection, the youngsters then "kidnapped Corporal George Bediako, driver of the Divisional Commander who they took him hostage till this morning."

It is understood that the installation of a queenmother had brought divisions in the town with one group supporting Nana Okasi Ababio, Akrofoumhene and the other group supporting Mr L.K. Ahenkorah, headmaster of Obuasi Secondary Technical School.

A police source alleged when the police invited Nana Okai Ababio to the Obuasi Police station, armed Akrofoum youngsters angrily descended on the Obuasi Central Police Station and forcibly demanded his release.