Ghana: Prison officers storm radio station, manhandle staff

A group of angry prison officers in Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city, on September 16, 2010 besieged the premises of privately-owned OTEC FM and attacked two staff members, including the programmes manager, Kate Frema Adomako.

One of the security men reportedly shoved Adomako onto the ground after   heckling the security man and forcibly entering the premises.

Adomako, who confirmed the incident to the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) said the officers were at  the station to attack a panelist, Francis Dodovi, a sympathizer of the ruling the National Democratic Congress, who they claimed had been discrediting a demonstration they  staged on  September 15.  The protest had been organized   to protest what the prison officers said was a discrimination against them in a new pay policy for the country. 

Dodovi, who was alleged to have described the demonstration as “irresponsible”, was held hostage by the officers for about thirty minutes.

Adomako said  but  for  the intervention of  neigbhours and  other  staff members,  the officers  would  have   attacked  Dodovi in the studio.

The police have launched investigations into the matter.

For more information please contact:

Kwame Karikari (Prof)
Executive Director
MFWA
Accra
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- September 20, 2010 by Media Foundation for West Africa

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