Police assault Joy News’ Latif Iddris for just asking questions

Some police officers Tuesday night subjected Joy News’ Latif Iddris to severe beatings at the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service.

His crime was simply that he asked one of the police officers a question on the technical name for one of the crowd control vehicles stationed at the police headquarters yesterday.

Latif says he got to the CID Headquarters at about 6:50 pm where a Deputy General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Koku Anyidoho, was being interrogated for making inflammatory comments.



Mr. Anydoho had made comments the police contend are treasonous and arrested him Tuesday for interrogation.
As part of Joy News’ coverage of situation at the CID Headquarters where NDC supporters had converged agitating for the release their party leader, Latif arrived at the scene just before prime news on Joy News Television at 7pm.

“I approached one Police officer and asked if the Service has a special name for the crowd control vehicle, about two of which were stationed in front of the CID Headquarters at the time,” Latif recounts.

But his seemingly harmless question attracted ire of the police officer who ordered Latif to get lost.

The reporter said he went away but the policeman grabbed him from behind and slapped him for “asking a stupid question”.

“He then pushed me into a crowd of other Police officers who had no clue what had transpired between the two of us but also started beating me up,” Latif narrated.

Source:Myjoyonline