AMA Guards In Bloody Attack
09.02.05
The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) taskforce known as the Rapid Response Unit (RRU) went on rampage on Tuesday when they allegedly ripped off a trader's ear with a pair of boots at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle area.
The trader, 35-year-old Ebenezer Obeng, had a bitter encounter with a number of the taskforce members on the evening of Tuesday, which virtually left his right ear torn off.
Ebenezer, who happens to be a shoe seller, narrated his ordeal to Peace FM and said about 9pm on Tuesday, he was hawking in front of the Allied Filling station at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle when a group of AMA staff accosted him with his products.
He claimed they accused him of flouting the AMA by-law that prohibits selling on the streets and pavements in the city.
Ebenezer said they tried to seize his goods which he had by then exhibited in front of a locked shop and for that matter was not ready to release it to them since he was not selling on either the street or the pavement.
Source: Modern Ghana