{"id":366649,"date":"2017-10-30T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=366649"},"modified":"2017-10-30T10:14:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T10:14:31","slug":"npp-youth-beat-me-as-police-watched-oman-fm-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=366649","title":{"rendered":"NPP youth beat me as police watched – Oman FM Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in the Adeiso District\u00a0of the Eastern Region, stood by and watched as a journalist, together with some\u00a0 Assembly members<\/a><\/strong><\/span>,\u00a0were assaulted by irate youth believed to be New Patriotic Party supporters\u00a0 during an election to choose a Presiding Member for the Adeiso District Assembly.<\/p>\n

The Oman FM journalist covering the election, Isaac Ofori, narrated to Citi News<\/strong> that he in particular, was slapped in the full glare of the District Commander,\u00a0ASP Abrefi Yeboah, and other police officers in uniform.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”xQSrJsrVZ9cXQJNk1ydiEmOwuwgLTIHC”]The Adeiso District Police have\u00a0since said it has begun investigations into the circumstances that led to\u00a0the incident, but no arrests have been made despite the seeming abundance of evidence.<\/p>\n

NPP youth group beats Assembly Members at Adeiso<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Adeiso Police are situated just about 10 meters from the election venue that saw chaos erupt.<\/p>\n

The angry youth, known as the Party Royals, besieged the Pentecost Church where the election was taking place,\u00a0and sparked the chaos,\u00a0after their preferred candidate, Eric Kwesi Mensah, did not get the required two-thirds of votes for the\u00a0position of Presiding Member.<\/p>\n

After the vote, which was tied at 19 apiece, the Electoral Commission announced a break ahead of an expected second round of voting.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of a sudden, some guys came to the room and took the ballot box away. It was a misunderstanding between the guys and the police,\u201d Isaac Ofori recounted.<\/p>\n

“As a journalist, I decided to take some shots, but before I could do that, one of the guys slapped me and I fell on the ground,” he added.<\/p>\n

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The police station is located just 10 metres away from the scene of the confusion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Police ignored judge’s pleas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Isaac Ofori, also noted that,\u00a0the police even failed to act on the orders of a judge, who was\u00a0at the scene.<\/p>\n

“The police were there, but they couldn\u2019t make any arrests. Even the judge who is supposed to come and do the confirmation of the Presiding member was calling for their arrest but nothing happened.<\/p>\n

The Police Commander was around at the time, along with his men, so Isaac Ofori said, he “didn\u2019t see the reason why they did not arrest anybody.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incident has been juxtaposed with the attempt by some Togolese to stage an unlawful protest in Accra, but were swiftly clamped down by the police at Nima over the weekend, and they are getting ready to put them before court today [Monday].<\/p>\n

This has again fueled concerns that such NPP youth are being protected because their government is in power.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Neil Amartey Kanarku & Delali Adogla-Bessa \/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police in the Adeiso District\u00a0of the Eastern Region, stood by and watched as a journalist, together with some\u00a0 Assembly members,\u00a0were assaulted by irate youth believed to be New Patriotic Party supporters\u00a0 during an election to choose a Presiding Member for the Adeiso District Assembly. The Oman FM journalist covering the election, Isaac Ofori, narrated to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[1792,3,56,1711],"class_list":["post-366649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-adeiso","tag-ghana-news","tag-npp","tag-vigilantism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}