James Slavery, an expatriate worker of Ellis Mechanical Services, a sub-contracting firm working on the new regional hospital in Sunyani has been arrested by the Police for an unprovoked assault on one of his security men.

Holding a stone in his hand, he was alleged to have punched and slapped Mr. Raphael Ayamba, the security man, a number of times causing him to bleed profusely from the nose. Mr. Ayamba's crime was that he had behaved insolently towards Slavery's Ghanaian girlfriend by refusing her entry into his house, even though, the standing drill is that no unauthorized or unaccompanied guest is to be allowed inside the house.

A reliable source told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani at the weekend that Mr Ayamba together with another Security man was on duty in the house at the airport residential area of Sunyani, where the expatriate staffs of the company live. He said on Friday night, Slavery repeated the standing drill to the Security men before he left the house.

Just a few minutes after his departure, Juliana Awuah, a girlfriend of Slavery, came around and insisted that she should be allowed to wait for him inside the house but the Security men refused. The source said Juliana ignored them and attempted to force her way into the house but Mr. Ayamba pulled her out.

Two hours after the encounter Slavery returned with Juliana and when Mr. Ayamba opened the gate for them, his boss came out of the car and punched and slapped him. "With a bloodied face, Mr. Ayamba left for the house of his brother Paul Zangina, who accompanied him to the hospital for treatment and later to the Police station to lodge a complaint".

When the GNA contacted the Sunyani Police Station at about 14:00 hours on Saturday, Slavery in a pair of shorts, bathroom sandals and a T-shirt, was still being detained. The Police said the expatriate staffs of the company, together with the family of Mr. Ayamba have requested that the case be withdrawn for amicable settlement.