4 persons before court for forcing students to eat raw chicken
The culprits have been charged with assault and offensive conduct.
Four persons including a community police have been arraigned before a
court in the Ashanti region for forcing some students of Akumadan Senior
High to eat raw fowl they stole.
According to the Ashanti Regional Police PRO, Godwin Ahianyo, the four
were picked up after a journalist in the region sent the footage of the
incident to the police.
“We instructed the Akumadan District Commander to follow up on the issue
and four of them have been arrested and put before court,” ASP Ahianyo
told the AM Show on the Joy News Channel on MultiTV Tuesday.
He added that the court has since remanded the accused persons to police custody for them to re-appear on February 4, 2019.
They have been charged with assault and offensive conduct.
Other accomplices are however on the run. According to the students their tormentors were about ten in number.
We were hungry
ASP Ahianyo narrated to host Mamavi Owusu Aboagye that the students
admitted to stealing the fowl with the alibi that they were hungry and
had strayed off campus to get something to eat.
According to some social media reports, the students had hoped to quench
their hunger with the fowl but before they had the chance to season
their booty, they were apprehended and forced to eat the bird raw.
Police deserve recommendation
Private legal practitioner, Abraham Amaliba, who was on the show noted
that the police deserve recommendation for apprehending the accused
persons and putting them before the court.
He added that the community police and the other men who punished the
boys lacked the competence to do so and hence had committed a wrong.
“…and two wrongs do not make a right,” he noted.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
