"Machomen" attack police station and free suspects

Kumasi (Ashanti Region) -- About 20 men stormed the Kuntanase police station, on Easter Monday and freed two suspects being held for stealing personal effects of holiday-makers who had gone to Lake Bosomtwe, at Abono.

According to the Police Public Relations Unit in Kumasi, at about 9 o'clock in the morning of Easter Monday, some soldiers handed over the suspects, Salifu Abass and Kwasi Owusu to the Kuntanase police.

The Police said a group of "macho men" numbering about 20 besieged the police station after the soldiers had left and demanded the release of the suspects. When General Corporal P. Agyemang who was alone at the station refused to release them, they attacked him and forced the cells opened and took the suspects away.