City guards with the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) allegedly to have severely beaten a commercial driver in a scuffle.

The incident is said to have happened in the full glare of a police officer on duty at the Kejetia Lorry Terminal.

The driver has sustained a degree of injuries as a result of the live wire they used in whipping him.

According to the victim, Robert, an attempt to prevent the city guards from towing his vehicle after an arrest by the police officer at the terminal after loading passengers at an unauthorised place, led to the brawl.

The driver claims he had been harassed by the guards not even after paying the police officer who arrested him 20 cedis as a settlement fee.

On this occasion, the driver claims that he couldn't fathom why he should pay the city guards extra 50 Ghana cedis after sorting out with the police, altercations ensued and the city guards decided to tow the vehicle. 

His resistance led to severe beatings, wounding him on the spot with a live wire and making away with 795 Ghana cedis sales.

Robert shared his ordeal with Sompa news and demanded justice.

“I’m a commercial driver, I ply from Kejetia to Offinso, this morning, I picked passengers at the Kejetial roundabout and was arrested by the police officer there, so he asked that I drop the people with an escort by a KMA city guard, I met the officer with the city guard and sorted the officer out so he asked the city guard to lead me and get my vehicle, when we got there, the city guards also asked for their share of 50 cedis, I told them I had already settled that with the officer, they got infuriated and asked the towing car to tow my car, when I resisted, they started beating me with live wire and made away with my car owner’s sale of 795 Ghana cedis, he said.

According to the victim, the city guards got angry after they were informed by their colleague that he has given the officer 20 Ghana cedis.

The driver is seen in a video with blood stains, meanwhile city authorities are demanding 500 cedis before they release the car in a recorded conversation with the news editor of Sompa FM.

Source……. www.sompaonline.com/Eric Murphy Asare