Minister for the Interior, Ambrose Dery, says the Police has intensified their efforts at arresting the suspects who assaulted ASP Nii Nanka Bruce, Director in charge of the VVIP at the Flagstaff House on January 9, 2017.
One of the suspects, he noted, has been identified as Mumuni Jabil, whose picture was published in the Daily Guide Newspaper on Mar h 18, 2017, with same published on Ghanaweb on March 16, 2017.
An Accra Circuit Court, he added, has also issued a warrant for the arrest of Mumuni Jabil.
He was very confident that once Mumuni Jabil is arrested, he will assist the law enforcement agencies to also get his accomplices arrested.
Hon. Dery made this observation on the floor of Parliament, Thursday, when answering to a question posed by the NDC MP for Kumbungu, Ras Mubarak.
Hon. Mubarak had asked the Interior Minister “whether he is aware that a Police Officer, ASP Nanka Bruce, was assaulted on January 9, 2017, at the Flagstaff House, which incident was widely reported by the print and electronic media including GTV, and if so, what measures have been taken in that regard.
Background
Some unidentified stoutly built civilians were captured in a secret video recording attacking a policeman at the seat of government – the Flagstaff House.
The assault reportedly took place on January 9 – on the day President Akufo-Addo officially started work after his swearing in.
The video which went viral on social media, shows the ‘vigilante group’ chasing the police officer by name ASP Nanka Bruce who sought refuge in a police vehicle.
The officer, who was said to be on secondment at the Flagstaff House during the John Mahama administration, was seen moving out of the premises of the presidency, but was accosted and stopped by an armed military officer was later assaulted and forced out of the car, inspite of attempts by senior police officers to rescue him and restore sanity.
The heavily built men known in the local parlance as ‘Macho men’ pushed and shoved the uniform policemen until a few military personnel came to the scene to salvage the situation.
The latter part of the two minutes and thirty-two seconds video depicts how some unseen faces broke into the garage of ASP Bruce and towed away two of his cars.
