Two officers of the West Gonja Municipal Ghana National Fire Service are in the custody of the Damongo Divisional Police command for allegedly beating and touchering a 27 year old man to death in Damongo.
The deceased, whose name has been given as
Shirazu Nuhu aka Mallam, a resident of Damongo Zongo according to an eyewitness was last Saturday accused of stealing a double sized mattress by the officers.
The eyewitness, who gave his name as Tanko narrated to Bole based Nkilgi Fm, that the deceased was chained and beaten for several hours by the officers with many people pleading with them to send the young man to the police station but the officers indicated that the police had rejected the deceased and that the only way they can retrieve the mattress is through the beatings.
A younger brother of the deceased Zakaria Mudasiru confirmed the sad passing on of his brother and described how the body of the deceased including his private parts were burnt through the use of a hot object suspected to be an electric iron including so many bruises that had led to his untimely death.
Mudasiru indicated that the family is demanded justice for the deceased.
He also pleaded with politicians and traditional authorities to allow the law bring the perpetrators to book by not interfering into the matter because beating of accused persons has become the order of the day in the Damongo municipality.
The body of the deceased has since been laid to rest whilst investigations are ongoing with some suspected officers allegedly on the ran following the arrest of the two.
Source: nkilgifmonline.com
