File Photo: The policeman sustained wounds from the beatings he received
A group of motorbike riders on Friday morning, 21 June 2019 mercilessly assaulted a police traffic warden who was directing traffic around the Abbosey Okai Roundabout in Accra.
An eyewitness who narrated the incident to ClassFMonline.com said the only ‘crime’ of the police officer was that he dared to confront the bikers, who were in the dozens, about why they unilaterally, without recourse to him, stopped all vehicles from all sides so they (the bikers) could weave through the traffic with their corpse, which they were conveying to the Awudome cemetery for burial.
The “rowdy”, “blood-baying” bikers, according to the eyewitness, who was also affected by that particular traffic, sieged the officer and pounced on him with blows and kicks.
Not even the intervention of a fellow officer within the precincts could deter the assailant bikers.
“They would have killed the policeman” and his colleague, the eyewitness said, explaining that it was the timely intervention of another passerby police officer who was accompanying a bullion van of a private bank within the same area, that saved the others.
“The other officer fired two warning shots”, the eyewitness narrated, which, he continued, “caused the marauding crowd of bikers who were bent on killing the officers, to speed off”.
A police reinforcement team later got dispatched to the scene and chased after the bikers to the cemetery.
One of the police officers got a bloody face as a result of cuts he sustained from the biker mob.
