Collins Fosu

c/o Agyei

P. O. Box SE 1340

KUMASI.

JULY 7, 2008

Dear Sir,

APPEAL FOR JUSTICE

I WISH petition against the ordeal I went through in 1980/1981 while I was in France and subsequent related events that have led to my incapacitation and wish to seek assistance from the international community to enable me access justice and compensation for the brutalities suffered as a result..

I am a 54-year-old Ghanaian, a native of Senfi near Ashanti Bekwai in Ghana , who answers to Collins Fosu.

I was subjected to ruthless human rights abuses both at home and abroad at the hands of foreigners as a result of which I have both arms amputated.

It all started in 1980-1981 in far away Strasburg in France when I had a quarrel with a French doctor which landed me in the grips of the French police

As a result my bank account at the Sogenal Bank in Strasburg was withheld on condition that I clear myself with the police.

I had no option than to flee France to Holland where I worked with the Amrons Bank in Amsterdam for three years.

Unfortunately, my identify was revealed after three years and asked to produce a police report to clear me. Again my bank account at the Amrons bank was confiscated which situation compelled me to travel to Cairo in Egypt in 1993 where I secured employment and worked for a while this time under a different name, Samuel Emmanuel Opare. . I lived at 12 Ahmed Essimat Street . In May 1994, I was involved in an industrial accident as a result of which my right arm was amputated.

The Ghana Embassy in Cairo hired a lawyer for me and was able to obtain a judgment in my favour by a court of law which ordered my employers to pay me a compensation for the injury sustained.

However, despite the court’s order the company refused to pay the compensation due me because it claimed I was not covered by the company’s insurance policy. My lawyer could also not effect the execution of the court’s order.

Instead of being compensated, I was rather arrested, brutalized and eventually deported to Ghana at a time a court of law had ruled in my favour for compensation from my employers.

I must state here that while I was pursuing compensation claims, Cairo police officials wrongfully arrested and detained me in police custody for over a month for not possessing resident permit even though I had a valid resident permit which was produced together with my passport on demand and which documents are still with the Ain Sams Police.

I was one morning awakened to my hospitalization at a Cairo hospital at a time I was in police custody. On gaining consciousnesses, I was told by officials of Ghana Embassy in Cairo that I was involved in an accident resulting in the loss of my three fingers.

A police report of 2001 singed by Captain Ahmed Shawki of the Cairo Security department indicated that I was rushed to the Matareya Educational Hospital on August 21, 2001 with a thorn left hand which little finger, ring finger and the middle finger were severed. I was also suspected to have a cerebral concussion.

The report indicated that Corporal Gomeah Mohammed Mostafa of Air Shams Police station, who was escorting me to immigration office because I did not have a resident permit, claimed he had handcuffed me since my right hand had already been amputated.

The police officer reported that at the underground station I slipped and fell between the platform and the railway lines and that I was too lucky to have been saved by the police officer who pulled me from an on coming train but not after the train had already chopped off my three fingers.

I doubt this claim by the police officer. It as strange because I am not conscious of any such incident involving me. All I remember is that I regained consciousness in the hospital. In fact, there was no chance of survival if I had been run over by an underground train and therefore see the report as a fabricated one and an attempt to kill me in order to deny me of my claim to compensation.

I would have taken legal action against the Egyptian Police but I was suddenly deported rendering me financially incapacitated to do so. The Egyptian government is ignoring my demands three years after I had petitioned the Egyptian government through the local Embassy in Accra .

Even though I complained three years ago by lodging a complaint with the Consular at the Egyptian Embassy in Accra, one Osama requested that I furnishes him (Osama) with police and hospital reports concerning my petition for the necessary action but to no avail.

Efforts by an assistant legal director of the Foreign Affairs ministry in Accra , Madam Jane Gaasu to link up the Ghana Embassy in Cairo to take up the matter and expedite the processes had not yielded any positive result either.

In fact, several reminders have not helped the situation to the surprise of officials at both the Foreign Affairs ministry and the Egypt Embassy in Accra .

Several petitions to the President of the Republic of Ghana and the Commission of Human Rights and administrative Justice (CHRAJ) since March 17, 2008 have not yielded any positive results yet.

I theretofore, wish to appeal to philanthropists to assist me to pursue the case against the Egyptian police. I will appreciate assistance in the form of legal aid to pursue the case at the appropriate quarters to its logical conclusion leading to the retrieval of my monies lodged in the French and Netherlands banks before I sojourned to Egypt in 2001 to bail me out of my current financial stress and plight.

I am currently in Ghana and can be reached on 00233-24-9534944. Hoping to hear favourably from you at your earliest convenience.

Yours faithfully,

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(COLLINS FOSU)

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