{"id":274324,"date":"2011-01-17T12:25:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T12:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=48174"},"modified":"2011-01-17T12:25:46","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T12:25:46","slug":"ndc-goons-beat-up-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/17\/ndc-goons-beat-up-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC Goons Beat Up Cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_48175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48175\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-48175\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/17\/ndc-goons-beat-up-cops\/paul_tawiah_quaye\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-48175\" title=\"paul_tawiah_quaye\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/paul_tawiah_quaye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IGP Paul Quaye<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nSOME RESIDENTS of the Tamale Metropolis believed to be members of the  National Democratic Congress (NDC), in the early hours of last  Saturday, allegedly pounced on personnel of the Motor Traffic and  Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service and subjected them to  series of brutalities.<br \/>\nA certain Sergeant Tinkorang and Lance Corporal Blay, who were among  the officials on duty at the time of the incident, sustained various  degrees of injury resulting from the scuffle with the NDC hoodlums.<br \/>\nSergeant Tinkorang, who is currently in critical condition, has been  admitted at a Tamale hospital for treatment while his other colleague  was treated and discharged on Saturday afternoon.<br \/>\nThe police subsequently arrested four persons who are believed to  have masterminded the attack and would soon prefer charges against them  and put them before court for prosecution.<br \/>\nThe police, on the instance of the Inspector General of Police, Paul  Tawiah Quaye, were instructed to step up efforts in clamping down on  road traffic offences throughout the country as part of measures to  reduce carnage on the roads.<br \/>\nThe exercise started in other parts of the country without any  incidents, with sections of the public complying with the regulations of  the road traffic act, but this could not be said of Tamale.<br \/>\nOfficials of the MTTU were said to have, upon directives from their  bosses, planned an operation last Saturday after a follow up visit by  ACP Awuni Angwubutoge, its National Commander, who reiterated the need  for all road users to adhere to the road traffic act or face the  consequence.<br \/>\nSoon after the police had apprehended some road traffic offenders,  three young men came to the scene and tried preventing the police from  processing the suspects for court, generating some heated exchanges.<br \/>\nSome residents, on seeing what was happening, stormed the scene and  subjected the uniformed police to severe beatings, thus injuring the two  victims.<br \/>\nReinforcement was therefore deployed to the scene, where they  arrested those obstructing the arrest as well as the traffic offenders  and took them to the police station.<br \/>\nThis was said to have attracted the attention of many more residents,  who besieged the police station and demanded the release of the  suspects, promising dire consequences if the police failed to comply  with their demands.<br \/>\nSeveral attempts to calm down the irate residents, numbering over 50,  proved futile as they become more violent, raining insults on the  personnel on duty until the branch secretary of the NDC at Nyohini, a  suburb of Tamale, also intervened and calmed the group.<br \/>\nThough the police administration has suspended the exercise for now,  officials say they would not be deterred by the actions of the residents  and that they would soon resume operations.<br \/>\n<em><strong><br \/>\nFrom Stephen Zoure, Tamale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOME RESIDENTS of the Tamale Metropolis believed to be members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), in the early hours of last Saturday, allegedly pounced on personnel of the Motor Traffic and Transport Unit (MTTU) of the Ghana Police Service and subjected them to series of brutalities. 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