Donkorkrom mayhem: IGP biased – Atakorahene

The Atakorahene of Donkorkrom in the Afram Plains North District of the Eastern Region, Nana Akuamoah Boateng Tanor has said the Inspector General of Police should stop taking sides in the Donkorkrom mayhem.

Irate residents of the area set the police station on fire last week during a rowdy demonstration in connection with the escape of two police officers who were arrested at near-by town Maame Krobo for their involvement in a botched heist operation of a GCB Bank bullion van.

Amidst the skirmishes, the angry residents burnt the police office and vandalised some properties.

IGP John Kudalor held a press conference the following day and announced that the police will pull out of the area until the locals have refurbished the police post. He also said the police will arrest the leaders of the demonstration.

However, Nana Akuamoah Boateng Tanor, told Accra100.5FM’s breakfast show, Ghana Yensom, on Monday, 22 August that the IGP’s comments smack of bias. As far as he is concerned, the police chief should rather empathise with the victims of robberies who have endured years of harassment at the hands of robbers in the town.

To him, the police have been treating the robbers with kid gloves and only pretend to be fighting crime in the area.

Nana Akuamoah Boateng Tanor said the robberies have intensified in the past two years, adding that there has never been a single day that the police had arrested robbers.