Two constables from the Anyaa Police Station (whose names are being kept under wraps for now) who over-zealously did the bidding of a beefy pot-bellied, skin-peeled official of HONANI COMMERCIALS, perhaps for a mess of pottage and subsequently attacked editor Dominic Kwaku Jale of THE SUN newspaper, twisted his arm and run away with his professional camera are powdering their faces to face a Service Enquiry.
Investigations are still on-going but it is generally believed that the partners-in-crime acted on their own without prompting from a superior officer, when the very matter under investigations had been forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency for further action by superior officer ASP J.K. Ansu at the Odorkor Police Station.
Mr. Jale who suffered pains in his arm and back pains from the apparently intoxicated constables says, he will pursue the case to the eyebrows of heaven until some sense is pumped into the heads of wayward Police officers of this ilk.
Mid last week editor Jale sent the first of his petitions to the Inspector General of Police Mr. Paul Tawiah Quaye through Police Public Relations boss DCOP Kwasi Fori, who, stupidied with amazement for several seconds, could not believe that a Police personnel trained supposedly efficiently well would attack and escape with the professional camera of a journalist, and promised to retrieve the lost camera from the duo.
Mr. Jale who was taken pictures of what he suspects was an illegal operation on him and the blocked drain has since sent other petitions to P.I.P.S., the Odorkor Police Commander who has a supervisory authority over the Anyaa Station and is still flirting with the idea of petitioning the seat of governemnt at the Castle, Osu.
According to Mr. Jale two Police officers who chose to hide their identities arrested him sometime last month, over a blocked wall that walls a collapsed company at Asofaa.
He explained that an official of Honani Commercials with a very big belly hanging over his belt by name Daniel Attoh lodged a complaint at Anyaa Police Station that he (Jale) had blocked an opening through the company’s wall where its waste liquids were to pass through straight into his (Jale’s) compound.
In a cautionary statement at the Anyaa Polcie, Mr. Jale denied having blocked the hole and was subsequently released on bail. However the nature of the case compaelled the parent Police Station at Odorkor to recall the docket on the matter.
On that occasion editor Jale and the pot-bellied offical of the company appeared before the officer in charge, ASP Ansu, together with the prosecutor, one Lance Corporal Asante after which the prosecuter was asked to write a letter to the EPA for further advice. At the said meeting the pot-bellied man said he had sought permission from the EPA to route the waste water through Mr. Jale’s compound for which reason the ASP wanted the Agency to advice further.
THE SUN learned that it was at this juncture tha another twosome Polcie officers must have maleably and pliably done someone’s bidding by descending on Mr. Jale’s compound to open up the blocked bole in the wall, very much against ASP Ansu’s order.
“ With swear words and alcohol smelling all over them they came that early morning and when I dared take a picture of the action they seized my professional camera and carried it away saying not even the IGP can retrieve it for me”, Jale said.
THE SUN’s checks have unearthed the fact that the defunct company failed to construct a drainage through its frontage and as an after thought have decided to re-route it through Mr. Jale’s compound.
But in the words of Mr. Jale for deliberately siding with the collapsed company and its officials and therefore stooping that low to thwart the cause of justice he desires to fight to the last to get justice and sound a useful warning to recalcitrant Police officers who, for just a few coins of money would want to terrorize his fellow Ghanaian.
Meanwhile at the time of going to press the IGP Mr. Tawiah Quaye called editor Jale on phone to ascertain the authenticity of the matter.