GJA President, Albert Dwumfour and interdicted police officer
President of the Ghana Journalist Association, Albert Kwabena Dwumfour has vowed that the police officer who brutally assaulted a journalist at Ablekuma will face dire consequences and “live to regret” his actions forever.
The assault on the journalist, he said, would not be taken kindly unlike previous cases and incidents where journalists were shamefully assaulted by the police without any action.
The police, he said, could no longer take members of the public for granted by playing mind games whenever one of their own committed a crime that required punishment.
Speaking in an interview with UTV on the assault a journalist with GHOne, Kwabena Agyekum Banahene suffered during the Ablekuma North election re-run, he gave the strongest indication that the police cannot escape.
He said, “mark this day down he will live to regret…The police cannot take us for granted. They knew that usually cases of this nature do die down just after some few weeks hence their swift action to interdict him”.
He termed the press release issued by the police administration to interdict the officer involved as “wobbling statement” and pure PR gimmicks just to deceive the public.
He explained that the statement was “wobbling” because even though the police administration knew the full details of the officer, they decided to conceal his name and other vital information from the public.
“When the police arrest suspects in this country, their names and other details are provided but when their own officer wearing a uniform was captured in a video assaulting a journalist, they refused to give details about him”. He continued.
Few hours after a video which captured the police officer assaulting the journalist went viral, the police administration quickly issued a statement to interdict the officer.
However, the police clandestinely refused to provide details such as the name and rank of the officer as their statement rather provided information about the victim.
In 2018, a broadcast journalist with Joy News, Latif Iddrisu was viciously was beaten by a group of police officers at the forecourt of the criminal investigation department (CID) in Accra.
Though it has been seven years since the incident occurred right at the nose of the police at the CID headquarters, the journalist is yet to receive justice for the atrocities meted out to him.
However, Kwabena Dwumfour has given the strongest assurance that the assault involving Kwabena Agyekum Banahen would not be allowed to die down without full-scale investigations and necessary legal action.
Police officer who assaulted journalist during Ablekuma North rerun will live to regret it – Albert Kwabena Dwumfour #UTVGhana pic.twitter.com/aXh6bFLszo
— UTV Ghana (@utvghana) July 16, 2025
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