Ghana’s image across the world has been soiled by the inhumane treatment meted out to a young lady who allegedly stole an amount of GHS1100, at Kejetia, Kumasi, private legal practitioner Francis-Xavier Sosu, has said.
According to him, this development and several others have reduced the respect the diplomatic community has for Ghana, for which reason an action should be taken immediately against such behaviour.
On February 17, a young lady accused of having stolen GHS1100 ($250) was stripped naked, beaten, and paraded barefooted on the streets of Kejetia in Kumasi, the Ashanti regional capital, by a marauding crowd of men, who repeatedly pushed her down, forced her legs open for mobile phone pictures and videos to be taken of her vagina, while others violently inserted their toes into her orifice and spanked her buttocks simultaneously in a noisy melee.
Desperate pleas by the fair-skinned alleged lady thief, whose clothes were all torn off except for her red brassiere, did not deter her Twi-speaking accusers from unleashing instant justice on her.
The irate crowd slapped, shoved, pulled and pushed the lady in every direction while groping her private parts.
In a short video that captured the whole incident, the lady is seen falling motionless and unresponsive on the street at a point, but the crowd kept hitting her and forcing her legs open.
Intermittent shouts by one or two men, who pleaded on the lady’s behalf, did not help matters as the crowd kept violently slapping and kicking the alleged thief in the vagina.
Speaking on this matter in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson, host of Ghana Yensom, on Accra100.5FM on Monday February 20, Mr Sosu said: “Even if she did steal the money, she should not have been subjected to this kind of treatment. We are a country of rule of law, for that reason she should have been handed over to the police. In a country where there is no rule of law, rule of tyranny and rule of war prevail and so this is bad.
“We all know that public confidence in the police in handling criminal cases reported to them have been eroded due to bribery and deliberate frustrations, but that is not a justification to maltreat a thief.
“What they did is totally against the law. The police should arrest them and even the lady who subjected her to degrading and dehumanising treatment should also be arrested for theft.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
