Ekumfi District PM caged

A former presiding member for the Ekumfi District Assembly in the Central Region, Mr. Daniel Hammond has been remanded into police custody for one week by Ajumako circuit court for allegedly insulting the District Chief Executive for the area, Mr. Ibrahim Kweku Dawson.Mr. Hammond, who is a teacher at Ekumfi Otabanadzi, was arrested last Friday by the Ekumfi Essarkyir police on the orders of Mr. Ibrahim Dawson.

He was later granted bail and processed for court Tuesday march 8, 2016.

Speaking to Oman News, Daniel Hammond narrated that his only supposed crime was that, he notified the DCE of some discrepancies in the President’s ‘Accounting to the People’ address regarding some construction work at Ekumfi-Esuehyia, also in the Central Region.

According to Mr. Hammond, the DCE was offended by his prying and first lodged a complaint at the Ekumfi District Assembly that he had insulted him. “So as a former presiding member of the assembly, I thought it wise to inform my DCE and the only thing I heard from my DCE was ‘how does it concern you?’ in a very harsh way,” Mr. Hammond recounted.

“I was in the class room teaching and I saw two police men approaching the school. The whole thing was that my DCE had reported me to police that I had insulted him so I should go to the police station with them.” Mr. Hammond indicated that he had even taken steps to resolve the matter but it appears the DCE was bent on taking that action against him.

“I gave my statement to the police and told them the steps I had taken to resolve this same issue. So my headmaster signed for my bail and yet they were refusing to grant me bail and I was charged for offensive conduct.” He was eventually granted bail but still faces charges of offensive conduct and is due in court later this month.

Story by: Michael Creg Afful

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