{"id":605177,"date":"2019-04-05T02:17:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  4 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n2019-04-04\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/4833"},"modified":"2019-04-05T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-05T02:17:11","slug":"pips-investigates-officer-who-beat-up-suspect-consulted-spiritualists-over-missing-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/05\/pips-investigates-officer-who-beat-up-suspect-consulted-spiritualists-over-missing-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"PIPS investigates officer who beat up suspect, consulted spiritualists over missing pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  4 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2019-04-04<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/48332755.295.jpg\" alt=\"Akwasi Addai67\" title=\"Akwasi Addai67\" width=\"295\" height=\"165\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Police sent Akwasi Addai to two spiritualists over missing pistol<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Police Intelligent and Professional Standard Bureau is investigating a police officer who assaulted a 38-year-old labourer for allegedly stealing a pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Armoury Instructor at Police Training School, Corporal Padmore Dankwa, and four others brutalised and dumped in cells, Akwasi Addai over the missing gun.<\/p>\n<p>They later took him to a fetish priestess and Muslim spiritualist both of whom used rituals to further incriminate the suspect who was also denied medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>A similar incident in which a driver was beaten up and detained by Community Police Assistants, has also been reported to the police administration.<\/p>\n<p>Corporal Dankwa and five unidentified persons stormed Mr. Addai\u2019s Dwumanafo residence in Kwabre Municipality, in search of the pistol allegedly stolen from his car.<\/p>\n<p>The policeman had parked the vehicle by the roadside at about 4 a.m. in order to attend to nature&#8217;s call in the bush.<\/p>\n<p>Father of three, Mr. Addai, says the policeman and his civilian accomplices assaulted and dragged him on the ground despite denying knowledge of the missing gun.<\/p>\n<p>He says they bundled him into a vehicle, continued beating him, took him to a Muslim spiritualist at Aboaso and later to a fetish priestess at Dwumanafo.<\/p>\n<p>The Muslim spiritualist claimed the suspect took the gun, directed Corporal Dankwa to a spot to retrieve it but they never found it.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Addai was later detained at Mampongteng police cells for several hours without medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of the stoutly-built men who held my waist, hit my mouth while another slapped me. One of them, identified as Blackman hit my side with a wooden slab until I became weak. They even threatened residents who wanted to come to my rescue. I was handcuffed and taken to a fetish priestess who chanted and threw a dove at an alligator in a stream to eat supposedly to confirm my guilt,&#8221; he narrated.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Addai has been left with walking and hearing difficulties and is unable to urinate normally.<\/p>\n<p>It took the intervention of PIPS officials to get him medical attention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel pain all over my jaws. I can&#8217;t chew anything. My waist, my eyes-I can&#8217;t see properly [and] I cannot walk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/34300064.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Alhaji Mohammed Danso (left) and the leaves he used to incriminate Mr. Addai<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Both the \u2018Mallam\u2019, Alhaji Mohammed Danso, and the fetish priestess, Nana Adwoa, have confirmed the story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A policeman brought a man he accuses of stealing his gun to me. I told him he cannot accuse someone without proper investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe mentioned a number suspects out of which the real culprit was detected here. I told the policeman to seek further proof elsewhere. He told me a fetish priestess at Adwumakaase confirmed my earlier revelation,&#8221; says Alhaji Danso.<\/p>\n<p>On her part, the Fetish Priestess, Nana Adwoa, who claims to have used the method of an alligator eating a live dove thrown at it to catch real culprits in robbery, says she trusts that method.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/39456428.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>The Fetish Priestess, Nana Adwoa<\/i><\/p>\n<p>According to her, she had been waiting for a sign from the gods after Mr. Akwasi Addai denied the accusation.<\/p>\n<p>She insists the gods have never failed her using the alligator-dove approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is not the first time. I have done it before; they [ gods] asked me to do that if I need something from them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nhyira News\u2019 checks revealed, Corporal Dankwa was not authorised to possess the gun at the time of the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Tafo-Pankrono Divisional Commander, Chief Supt K.A Arhin has ordered the arrest of the spiritualists and the other accomplices while PIPS investigate the policeman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Thursday, 4 April 2019 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2019-04-04 Police sent Akwasi Addai to two spiritualists over missing pistol Police Intelligent and Professional Standard Bureau is investigating a police officer who assaulted a 38-year-old labourer for allegedly stealing a pistol. 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