Bukom Banku Beats Residents

Braimah ‘Bukom Banku’ Kamoko, World Professional Boxers Federation (WPBF) lightweight champion, is reported to have beaten up one Mary Somo Amui, along with her two daughters and grandsons, leaving them with various degrees of injury.

The victims, residents of the James Town community, tasted the boxing prowess of the lightweight champion when they went to inquire from him why he had slapped one of the grand sons of Mary.

Narrating her ordeal to DAILY GUIDE SPORTS, Mary, a fishmonger and resident of Sakumo Tso Shi in the James Town community, said her brother told her that a young lady, an alleged girlfriend of Bukom Banku, had come to seek refuge in their house at about 2:00am because she was being chased by the boxer.

She said her brother took the lady in and gave her a place to hide till daybreak when he let her go. Mary said when Bukom Banku got to know that his alleged girlfriend had come to seek refuge in their house, he came and insulted everybody in the house.

She said three days later, one of her grandsons, aged eight, who was staying with his mother at London Market, was asked to retrieve a football from the gutter by his friends but he ended up being slapped by Bukom Banku.

“We did not take any ill feeling to his house. We just went there to find out why he slapped the boy,” Mary said in the local Ga dialect.

She said when they got to Banku’s house and asked him why he had slapped the boy, the boxer asked them to leave his presence.

“So I said we would not leave until he told us why he slapped my grandson,” she said.

“Just then, Bukom Banku punched my face and I fell to the ground. He gave another punch to the nose and mouth of my daughters who accompanied me.” Mary noted that in their bid to report the incidence to the James Town Police, Bukom Banku chased her with a truck and beat her and the grandson she was carrying.

“He said he would lead me to the police station to report the case and that the police are his friends so they will not arrest him.

“True to his words when we got to the police station they gave us a report to go for medical treatment but they did not arrest him,” Mary said.

She also stated that after going to the hospital the police asked for a medical report which they provided but after collecting the report nothing had been about the case.

She said efforts to get the police taskforce to arrest and bring Bukom Banku to book also failed as the James Town police called to say the case was with them. “It has been almost two weeks since the incident and the police are not showing any sign of interest in our case,” she said.

When the paper made a call to Bukom Banku’s cell phone to get his reaction to the story, he said, “You can run the story because if I want to talk, it will be a long story.”