Lockdown: Coalition Urges Security Agencies to Respect the Human Rights of Civilians

April 1,2020//-The Independent Police Complaints Coalition (IPOCOCO),  a group of civil society organizations/individuals advocating for the setting up of an independent police complaint body for Ghana, has asked the security agencies to respect the human rights of civilians as the country embarks on 14 days of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown.

Freed : Meet the ‘Trotro’ driver and mate who beat police officer

The commercial bus driver and his mate, who were publicly captured in a video assaulting a police officer have been freed.

The two – Francis Buabeng and Albert Ansah were fined GHS 3,600 or will have been sentenced to 12 months in prison in default.

A Circuit Court in Weija, Accra, convicted them after they were found guilty of assault following their arrest in March 2019 during which they exchanged blows with a uniformed police officer.