A military officer has been detained at a guardroom at Burma Camp for allegedly leaking a CCTV tape which captured persons suspected to be members of the Invincible Forces, a private security wing of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), beating up a senior police officer at the Flagstaff House in Accra.
The 45-year-old military officer, name withheld, was on duty at the Flagstaff House when the alleged assault on the senior police officer took place on 9 January, two days after Nana Akufo-Addo’s investiture, and is suspected to have leaked the CCTV clip which has gone viral on social media.
Narrating her husband’s ordeal on Class FM on Monday, 20 February, Abena (pseudonym) said her husband had been detained without food and water since Friday, 17 February.
“He has been detained for 72 hours now with no food or water,” she told show host Moro Awudu.
“He called me on Friday that he had been called to report to the Flagstaff House but he didn’t know…why he had been called. So he left home in the afternoon and around 3:00pm, he called me that they were taking him to the office of the BNI with a couple of other soldiers.
After that call, I didn’t hear anything from him again. His phone went off… At about 11:00pm, I had a call from someone that they had released some of the soldiers taken to BNI to report today (Monday February 20) and that my husband was one of those who were being detained.
So I started getting worried because if you have not charged him with any offence why do you keep him there?”
Abena narrated that she had an anonymous call from a Good Samaritan that her husband had been taken to Burma Camp where he was detained. According to her, she visited Burma Camp to give him food on Saturday evening after he had gone the whole of Friday and Saturday morning and afternoon without food or water.
Asked what the husband had told her when she visited him at Burma Camp, Abena replied: “He said he was questioned about how that video got out and he was accused of being on duty on that day, so he was a suspect for leaking the video,” adding: “But they don’t have any proof, so I don’t see why they should keep him there.”
“He was on duty on that day and he wasn’t even aware something like that was going on. He has nothing to do with this issue.”
She said her husband was “devastated and down” and did not understand why he was being treated that way when she spoke to him. He was, however, not tortured or manhandled.
When the EBS team contacted the Director of Operations at the Flagstaff House, Lord Commey, for government’s side of the story, he replied via text: “I don’t think I’m the right person to talk to.
From your narrative, I think it’s a purely security matter which I don’t think I’m competent enough to speak on. I may be of help in some other way or form.”
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Source: classfmonline.com
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You fuuulishness. The time for such detentions are long gone and a thing of the past. What has happened to the rule of law?
That was good effort by detaining them cos the security of this country is paramount so you cant be in the midst of your masters and leak informations to the enemies of your master.
EIIII NPP. THEY DEMONISED THE BNI AND EVEN SAID IT SHOULD BE BANED. NOW THEY HAVE STARTED TAKEN PEOPLE THERE. WHAT IS THE CRIME OF THIS GENTLEMAN THAT IS THOSE WHO BEAT HIM WAS IT RIGHT? HOW CAN YOU BEAT UP A SENOIR POLICE OFFICER AT THE SEAT OF GOVERMENT. WHEN PEOPLE WERE BEATING AT THE CASTLE WHAT DID THE NPP THE CHAMPION OF DEMOCRACY SAY. WE HAVE NOT SEEN NOTHING YET.
Jonathan and calculus will never learn cos their ming is not moving well so only unthikable comment s be what they write always. Just few months a go a soldier was detained for taking a kalypo selfie but u guys saw even that one as normal how more the one who mis been investuigated on a video and if u guys can read to understand they stated that he wasnt manhandled. @manny, i thought by this time u have taken it to BBC long time koraa o, what are u waiting for and i hope u are not a hypocrite so u did same to the millitary man who was drinking kalypo tooo. @nana sit up, how long did JM rule and how was the cedi throughout his tenure, so why complaining of the cedi to a two months government and the price of goods too, abeg think well next time wai cos Nana is not a magician
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT THOSE MEN WHO MANHANDLED THE MAN ARE THE INVISIBLE FORCE ?? IF NOT OPPOSITION PROPAGANDIST AT WORK AND WANT TO DRAW NPP INTO EVERY MATTER JUST BECOS THE NDC HAVE BE VOTED OUT OF GOV'T AND ARE IN OPPOSITION .
Massa, if you want to know who is the real Political Dictator them that will be your NDC party. Have you people forgotten how the Army did detained that young soldier for just DRINKING KALEPO on his facebook page??? by the way, the soldier is under investigation and will be discharged if he is innocent. taking photos on duty is a big offence in the Army laws.
IT'S A CHANGE THE NPP ARE CALLING FOR. INVISSIBLE FORCES ARE BETTER THAN POLICE AND SOLDIERS. UP TLL NOW THEY HAVE NOT APPREHENDED THE PERSON WHO BEAT THE OFFICER. 'ASEM BEBA DABI', WE LIVE TO SEE.
hmmmmmmmm, yoooo, yoooo......
Why bring Nana Addo and Lord Commey's names into a matter which is purely a Security matter ? NDC ranted press should leave Nana Addo alone and think of how they will build their collapsed, disunity NDC party.
So many soldiers why was he the only one picked? The story doesn't add up there is more to this