Afenyo-Markin Alleges Assault by Police Officer During Judiciary Protest

Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has condemned what helium describes arsenic an “unprovoked enactment of violence” against him by a constabulary serviceman during the “Save the Judiciary” objection held astatine Parliament House connected Monday, May 5.

In a connection released the aforesaid day, Afenyo-Markin recounted being struck forcefully successful the chest—near the heart—by a uniformed serviceman identified arsenic Constable Forson, arsenic helium approached a barricade to contiguous a petition connected behalf of demonstrators.

“The interaction of the deed dazed me, and I was visibly shaken and abbreviated of breath,” the Minority Leader stated, noting that elder officers and colleagues rapidly intervened to assistance him with h2o and aesculapian attention.

Video footage of the incident, wide circulated connected societal media, shows Afenyo-Markin visibly agitated arsenic helium attempts to face the serviceman down the barricade. However, helium insists that his absorption was a nonstop protestation against the officer’s misconduct—not an enactment of aggression.

“What makes this battle peculiarly egregious is that the serviceman was being openly reprimanded by his superiors and chap officers astatine the time, yet helium defiantly responded that helium didn’t attraction who I was,” Afenyo-Markin said.

He added that the serviceman mysteriously disappeared from the country pursuing the altercation, raising concerns astir imaginable efforts to shield him from accountability. Afenyo-Markin has since announced his volition to formally petition the Inspector-General of Police to request a afloat probe into the matter.

The Minority Leader besides criticised attempts to politicise the incident, suggesting that elements wrong the absorption were trying to distort the communicative to divert attraction from the demonstration’s halfway law objectives.

“We marched to support the Constitution and the independency of the judiciary—principles that indispensable beryllium protected astatine each costs,” helium asserted.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Police Service has extended an invitation to Afenyo-Markin for questioning arsenic portion of investigations into the incident.