{"id":978088,"date":"2022-02-05T22:58:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T22:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/05\/apuu-embattled-mces-retort-to-a-cops-claim-of-being-a-whole-police-officer\/"},"modified":"2022-02-05T22:58:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T22:58:44","slug":"apuu-embattled-mces-retort-to-a-cops-claim-of-being-a-whole-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/05\/apuu-embattled-mces-retort-to-a-cops-claim-of-being-a-whole-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Apuu!!!\u2019 \u2013 Embattled MCE\u2019s retort to a cop\u2019s claim of being \u2018a whole Police officer\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A careful review of the video and audio recordings on the incident that involved the embattled Metropolitan Chief Executive (MCE) of the Sekondi-Takoradi Municipal Assembly, Abdul Mumin Issah and a cop, indicates that the MCE is very abreast with Ghanaian street language.<\/p>\n

This is because, aside threatening to \u201cchange your situation\u201d and transfer the Police Officer to Enchi (213km from Sekondi-Takoradi), Mr Issah retorted, \u201cApuu!!!\u201d when the Police officer referred to himself as \u2018a whole Police officer\u2019 in reaction to a \u201cstupid\u201d remark by the MCE.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are insulting a whole police officer as stupid, someone who has been mandated by the Constitution to protect you?\u201d To this, Mr. Issah retorted, \u201cyou? A whole Police officer? \u2018Apuu\u2019!!!<\/p>\n

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\u2018Apuu\u2019 in Ghanaian parlance is an exclamation that denotes disdain or scorn.<\/p>\n

Also, at a point in the fracas, the Police officer told someone who introduced himself as an Assembly Member of the area, thus intervened and requested the former to allow the MCE to go, that he would not, \u201cI\u2019m going to charge him for dangerous and careless driving. Insulting a Police officer in uniform that he is stupid, if I was angry and insulted him back, what would have happened?\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cYou don\u2019t know who you are dealing with, you will come begging tomorrow\u201d \u2013 Abdul-Mumin Issah\u2019s [MCE, Sekondi-Takoradi]<\/p>\n

Watch encounter between Sekondi-Takoradi MCE and @ghpoliceservice<\/a> officer after he [MCE] was stopped for alleged dangerous driving #JoySMS<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/4I6Ulp9p3v<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mr. Issah upon hearing this remark, quizzed, \u201cyou would have insulted me? I would have beaten you to death.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was at this point that the MCE was heard ordering someone to \u201cgo and take the gun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier, the MCE pulled out his phone to snap the officer.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can snap me, I am a nice and handsome Police officer. You can take the pictures and video\u201d, the cop said. In response, Mr. Issah stated, \u201cyou are ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n

Subsequent to this incident, the MCE was arrested.<\/p>\n

He was consequently charged with assault on a public officer, offensive conduct and disturbing the peace of a public place, careless and inconsiderate driving and causing danger to road users.<\/p>\n

When he appeared in court on Friday, Abdul Mumin Issah pleaded not guilty to the charges.<\/p>\n

At the end of proceedings, he was granted a GH\u00a2100,000 self-recognisance bail with three sureties. The case was adjourned to March 17, 2022.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, government has suspended him, pending the outcome of the suit.<\/p>\n

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In a press statement issued on Friday, the Minister of Local Government, Decentralisation and Rural Development, Mr. Dan Botwe stated that: \u201cOn the instructions of the President, the Metropolitan Chief Executive for Sekondi-Takoradi Assembly, Mr. Abdul Mumin Issah has been suspended from office with immediate effect pending an inquiry into his encounter with the Police on February 3, 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

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