Gilbert Ossah, a resident of Hwakpo in the Ada West District, on Thursday, assaulted a Tema High Court bailiff and police personnel for attempting to paste a court order on his mother’s property.
The suspect, who is currently in the coolers at the Ada Divisional Police Station, Kasseh, according to information available to this news portal, brandished a machete to slash the police personnel who were at the residence with the bailiff.
He succeeded in grabbing and tearing the buttons of one of the police personnel, and further threatened to do worse than that should he meet the policeman in the public.
However, the other police personnel at the scene overpowered Gilbert Ossah, handcuffed and detained him in the cells at the Ada Divisional Police Station at Kasseh.
A police source at the Ada Divisional Police Station, on the telephone on Friday morning, confirmed the incident to The Chronicle and expressed disgust at the misconduct of a top government official in the area who drove to the station to demand the release of Gilbert Ossah.
According to the police source, the said official said the bailiff erred by going to paste a court order on Gilbert’s mother’s property without prior notice even though the order affects the same property.
“But (name withheld) didn’t bother about the assault on the police personnel and the weapon he brandished at the police. Late yesterday, he was here (police station) to order us to release the suspect or some of us would lose our job.
“We could not be threatened by his words because we don’t take instructions from him. What the (gov’t official) came to do at the police station yesterday was ridiculous,” the police source at the Ada Divisional Police Station told The Chronicle on the telephone.
Efforts to get to the said government official on the telephone on Friday morning, including a text message to him on the matter, were unsuccessful.
