A Police Station at Ehi, a village in the Ketu North municipality of Volta Region was vandalised by an irate mob in the night of Monday November 3, 2025.
A suspect, who was on detention over his alleged involvement in a murder case, was removed to a secret location by the police to avoid being lynched.
The attackers, who got hint of the secret location of the suspect went to the place, brought him out from the room he was being temporary detained and beat him (suspect) unconscious, after overpowering the police. Thinking that he was dead, the mob dumped him into a nearby gutter.
The Ketu Divisional Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Mr Alfred Kudah confirmed the story to The Chronicle, in a telephone conversation.
According to him, the incident occurred around 8:30pm on Monday, when a certain Agbavitor Kofi engaged another man in a fight over a lady.
He added that Agbavitor reportedly used a jack knife to stab Julius Sablah, 32, aka D-Black, to death, who had only gone to separate the fight.
Suspect Agbavitor then fled to the Ehi Police Station in the Dzodze district seeking protection but the mob followed and pressurised the police to hand over the suspect to them.
When the police refused, the mob attacked, pelting officers with stones and other objects. It was this development that forced the police to remove the suspect from the police station to another location.
The Dzodze District Police Commander, Chief Superintendent William Gyamfi and his Crime Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Emmanuel Habada, who rushed to the scene found the ongoing mob action volatile, and as such fell on the Ketu Divisional Headquarters at Tokor, a suburb of Denu for assistance.
He continued that, the attack on the station and personnel intensified forcing the divisional police command to dispatch a squad of heavily armed patrol men as reinforcement to the village.
Upon hearing that police reinforcement team was on the way to the place, the Ehi community members blocked both ends of the Penyi-Ehi road with burning lorry tyres, thereby rendering it impassable, while subjecting the station to severe attacks.
The police special formation, however, tactically went through the obstacle, but was greeted with much hostility at the scene.
Chief Superintendent William Gyamfi, Inspector Augustine Tawiah and Constable Adu Foster suffered various degrees of injury.
The station was vandalised with rooftops damaged, doors to the station destroyed, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) office broken into and stationery torn into pieces.
The mob also smashed the television set in the room. A broken down vehicle parked at the station was also set ablaze.
The commander further told The Chronicle that liquid substance that smells like petrol was seen placed at the Charge Office for unknown reason.
In that state of confusion, police rescued suspect Agbavitor to a secret place, but themob detected the location, overpowered the police and beat the suspect with offensive weapons.
Thinking that he had died, the mob dumped the suspect in a gutter and fled the scene.
For the second time, police rescued the suspect, with head injuries and multiple abrasion on his body.
He was rushed to the St Anthony Hospital at Dzodze, Ketu North Municipal capital and admitted under heavy armed guard pending his recuperation to assist with the investigation into the murder of Julius Sablah.
