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Television presenter Kwaku Annan has alleged that the police tortured Reverend Owusu Bempah when he was in detention.
Kwaku Annan in a recent submission on Nsem Pii TV disclosed that the leader and founder of Glorious Word Power Ministry International, Rev Owusu Bempah’s recent arrest were motivated by some powerful people in the government.
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According to Kwaku Annan, the NPP neglected Owusu Bempah when he was detained, but members of the opposition National Democratic Congress were the ones who came to his aid.
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“The NDC on which Owusu Bempah stands accused and has spoken ill about them were those who were at his beck and call.
“Intelligence that I have picked suggests that the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, and other dignitaries of the party paid a visit to Rev Owusu Bempah at his home to sympathize with him but I don’t know whether he was able to look them in the face or not. Later, the same high-ranking government official requested the intervention of Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams,” he said in Twi.
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Narrating some of the events that happened during Owusu Bempah’s arrest, Kwaku Annan said “When he (Owusu Bempah) was taken to the Police Hospital and he was asking the policemen why he was still in handcuffs, they told him that it was an order from above”.
“later on in the night, the police operative came back to the hospital to pick Rev Owusu Bempah back to the cells but the doctor on duty said it was not appropriate and that he would not release him to them, because his condition was deteriorating. But the police forcefully removed the drips while Rev Bempah was bleeding and they whisked him away”.
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KwakuAnnan alleged that the deputy chief of staff visited him and told him that President Akufo-Addo had ordered his release but he was still held in police custody.
“The next day at midnight about 8 police operatives, dressed in fearful uniforms arrived at the Cantonment Police Department, picked Owusu Bempah, and took off at top speed through the British High Commission area. But the police realized that one of Owusu Bempah’s pastors was following them so they aborted their mission. As to what they were going to do, I can’t tell,” he said.
source: www.ghbase.com