Police Officers from the Gusheigu Police Station in the Northern Region were on Thursday attacked with machetes and clubs when they went to a village to arrest a suspect in a cattle theft case.
According to police report, the station received a complaint from one Kayode Akinwale at Gusheigu on May 8, 2019 that one of his cattle had been stolen from his kraal and after his personal investigation, noticed that it was stolen by one Djebila of Dam Daboya village in the same region.
The police, in an attempt to get to the suspect were spotted by relatives of the suspect who attacked the officers and destroyed the windscreen of the police vehicle they went with.
“On receipt of this report, led by ASP Thomas Tulasi on 9th May, 2019, at about 5am proceeded to the sad village. Immediately the suspect and his family saw the police, they attacked the police with machetes and clubs,” the police report said.
It added that, “it took police a lot of time amidst firing of warning shots before they were able to retreat. In the process, the windscreen of the service vehicle number GP 3376 got damaged.”
The incident goes to join the growing list of attacks by citizens on security officials especially the police.
Barely a week ago, a police officer, identified as Sergeant Mahanadi, was brutalized by some residents of Amasaman in the Greater Accra Region for reasons yet to be known.
A similar incident that gained national attention was a viral video that saw a commercial driver and his mate engaged in a physical fight with a uniformed police officer.
The two persons were subsequently arrested and put before court for assaulting the officer.