Bukom Banku beats grandma, two daughters & grandsons

Brimah Kamoko, World Professional Boxers Federation (WPBF) Lightweight champion, popularly known as Bukum Banko, seems to have turned the residents of his James Town neighborhood into punching bags he uses for training.
The professional boxer, reports say, has beaten to pulp one Mary Somo Amui, along with her two daughters and grandson, leaving them with various degrees of injury.
The helpless women were said to have been pounced on and beaten mercilessly when they went to inquire from the boxer why he had slapped one of Mary’s grandsons when he (grandson) tried to take a football from a gutter in the vicinity.
Narrating her ordeal, Mary, a fishmonger and resident of Sakumo, Tso Shi, an area in the James Town community, said her brother told her that a young lady (alleged girlfriend of Bukom Banku) had come to seek refuge in their house at about 2am because she was being chased by Bukom Banku.
She said her brother took her 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 stormed the house and insulted everybody there.
She said three days after Bukom Banku had come to insult them, one of her grandsons, aged eight, who stayed with his mother at London Market, was asked to retrieve a football from a gutter by his friends but ended up being slapped by Bukom Banku.
“We did not take any ill feeling to his house, we just went to find out why he slapped the boy,” Mary said in her local Ga dialect.
She said when they got to Banku’s house and asked him why he had slapped the boy, the response he gave was that they should leave his presence, “so I said he cannot tell us to leave his presence without telling us what happened before he slapped my grandson”.
“Just then Bukom Banku punched my face and I fell, gave another punch to the nose and mouth of my daughters who accompanied me.”
Mary noted that in their bid to report the incident to the James Town Police, Bukom Banku chased her with a truck and beat her up as well as her grandson she was carrying.
She stated, “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 did not arrest him,” Mary stated.
She added that after going to the hospital, the police asked for a doctor’s report which they provided but after collecting the report, nothing had been done 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.
However, “it has been almost two weeks since the incident happened 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.”

Brimah Kamoko, World Professional Boxers Federation (WPBF) Lightweight champion, popularly known as Bukum Banko, seems to have turned the residents of his James Town neighborhood into punching bags he uses for training.
The professional boxer, reports say, has beaten to pulp one Mary Somo Amui, along with her two daughters and grandson, leaving them with various degrees of injury.
The helpless women were said to have been pounced on and beaten mercilessly when they went to inquire from the boxer why he had slapped one of Mary’s grandsons when he (grandson) tried to take a football from a gutter in the vicinity.
Narrating her ordeal, Mary, a fishmonger and resident of Sakumo, Tso Shi, an area in the James Town community, said her brother told her that a young lady (alleged girlfriend of Bukom Banku) had come to seek refuge in their house at about 2am because she was being chased by Bukom Banku.
She said her brother took her 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 stormed the house and insulted everybody there.
She said three days after Bukom Banku had come to insult them, one of her grandsons, aged eight, who stayed with his mother at London Market, was asked to retrieve a football from a gutter by his friends but ended up being slapped by Bukom Banku.
“We did not take any ill feeling to his house, we just went to find out why he slapped the boy,” Mary said in her local Ga dialect.
She said when they got to Banku’s house and asked him why he had slapped the boy, the response he gave was that they should leave his presence, “so I said he cannot tell us to leave his presence without telling us what happened before he slapped my grandson”.
“Just then Bukom Banku punched my face and I fell, gave another punch to the nose and mouth of my daughters who accompanied me.”
Mary noted that in their bid to report the incident to the James Town Police, Bukom Banku chased her with a truck and beat her up as well as her grandson she was carrying.
She stated, “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 did not arrest him,” Mary stated.
She added that after going to the hospital, the police asked for a doctor’s report which they provided but after collecting the report, nothing had been done 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.
However, “it has been almost two weeks since the incident happened 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.”