Maale - Maale staff flogged by police at Mamponteng for allegedly burning the company's money

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One of the staff members of Boafo ointment popularly known to be Maale-Maale, Mohammed Abutrika 27 years, has accused  police at the Mamponteng district of Ashanti Region of subjecting him to several flogging for allegedly setting fire on money belonging to the company.
 
Mohammed Abutrika resides at the company's bungalow and works with the company as a mechanic.
 
Abutrika narrating his ordeal to the media said he was arrested by his colleague workers with some policemen last Saturday with accusation of being the arsonist who set the money on fire, forced into a vehicle and was conveyed to the police station.
 
He added that upon reaching the station, some three police men at the station, handcuffed him, ordered him to lie on a table and started flogging and torturing him with a shocker as a way of compelling him to admit guilty to the accusation.
 
"They pounced on me whiles I was in handcuffs, I was severely lashed. As the two were busily beating me, one of them called Otu was also stamping on my testicles. I was tortured by the three policemen and later sent back to the cells". Abutrika narrated.
 
The victim who was in a critical condition and was struggling to speak as a result of the brutality complained that one of the men in black stamped on his private part.
 
He added that, he had nobody to support him, as all his colleagues whom he could ran to, were in support of the police action on him.
 
Meanwhile, the Ashanti Regional Manager of the company, Mr.. Chris reacting to the incident admitted to the case and said the police did not fault for flogging him, since it was the only way to get him confess.
 
He said Abubakar was their employee and that they have every right to penalize him when he commits.
 
 
 

 




 

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