A National Democratic Congress (NDC) scribe in the Brong-Ahafo Region, Nana Agyei Ntow, who has been championing justice for the vulnerably in society, has sued the Ghana Police Service for unlawful imprisonment.
Severally joined in the suite are the Inspector General of Police, Mr. Paul Tawiah Quaye, the Sunyani Police Commander, Superintendent Charles Botwe, the Brong-Ahafo second in command, ACP Moses Ranford Ninson, Inspector Darkeh of the Sunyani Police Command, and Inspector Coffie of the Regional Police Command.
Nana Ntow, who is the Chief Executive for Access to Justice, Human Rights, non-governmental organization (NGO) in Sunyani, is claiming compensation of GH�200,000 from the defendants.
He is also recommending to the National Police Council to dismiss the defendants from the Police Service at once, and without any benefits.
In his statement of claim filed at the Sunyani High Court, the Plaintiff said that on January 7, 2010, the Sunyani Police Commander seized and dragged him to the police charge office, and ordered that he be detained in a police cell without even being told what he had done wrong.
The plaintiff states that the following day, the police boss, on the specific instructions and directly under the supervision of ACP Ransford Ninso, caused Inspector Darkeh to deny his bail, but process him for court, when he had not committed any offence.
The plaintiff said the defendants conspired to, and actually, forced him into handcuffs, and dragged him to a Magistrate Court without being charged or told of what he was supposed to have done wrong. The plaintiff claimed the defendants used the 5th defendant, Inspector Coffie, to influence and deceive the Magistrate court to unlawfully remand him into prison custody for six days, making it a total seven days in unlawful custody.
The plaintiff stated that all the defendants told the District Magistrate Court was that they were still investigating the case, and so could not even take his plea or prefer any charge against him, yet they manipulated the magistrate to unlawfully imprison him. The plaintiff stated that the defendants deliberately orchestrated a massive media circus at the District Court to broadcast the extremely devastating and irreversible public humiliation they had wickedly planned against him.
He further stated that he caused his lawyer to file a motion in the High Court for his release, and it was declared on Thursday, January 14, 2010 by the Honourable High Court, that the plaintiff�s imprisonment by the District Magistrate Court, obviously caused by the defendants, was unlawful.
The plaintiff said that it was on the same January 14, 2010, after the said ruling of the High Court, that the defendants maliciously manufactured eight groundless charges against him at the District Court, in an attempt to cover up their blunder.
The plaintiff further stated that at the next adjourned date on January 22, 2010, that State Attorney, who had taken over prosecution of the said case, filed the appropriate document at the District court to withdraw all the eight charges brought against him. The District Court subsequently discharged him of all the eight charges.
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