Afenyo-Markin petitions IGP over alleged assault by police during #SavetheJudiciary demo

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Minority Leader successful Parliament, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin

The Minority Leader successful Parliament, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, has petitioned the Inspector General of Police, COP Christian Tetteh Yohuno, calling for an probe and disciplinary enactment against a constabulary serviceman who allegedly assaulted him during the "Save the Judiciary" objection held astatine Parliament House, connected Monday, May 5 ,2025.

According to him, the officer, identified arsenic Constable Forson, who was stationed astatine the entranceway of Parliament House to supply information during the demonstration, assaulted him.

“Constable Forson assaulted maine astatine the entranceway of Parliament House during the demonstration,” helium indicated.

In a property merchandise dated May 5, 2025, Afenyo-Markin alleged that Constable Forson, a tall, fair, and heavy built officer, deliberately struck him connected the thorax without provocation.

Afenyo-Markin has urged the IGP to code the incidental promptly to guarantee accountability and, crucially, to close what helium described arsenic "misleading narratives circulating successful the nationalist domain" astir the circumstances of the incident.

“To code this incidental and to close misleading narratives circulating successful the nationalist domain, I person issued a nationalist connection detailing the events arsenic they occurred,” helium said.

Meanwhile, the Ghana Police Service has besides announced that it has invited Afenyo-Markin to assistance with investigations pursuing allegations that helium assaulted a constabulary serviceman during a objection connected Monday, May 5, 2025, successful Accra.

According to the police, pursuing a reappraisal of the incident, the work has written to the Speaker of Parliament requesting the merchandise of Afenyo-Markin to assistance successful the ongoing investigation.

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