[ 2011-04-21 ]

Alfred Nii Oko Vanderpuije, AMA Boss

Trader’s ear chopped off by AMA taskforce team
A 35 year old shoe dealer at the Kwame Nkrumah
Circle has found himself on the wrong side of the
law leading to the alleged chopping off of one of
his ears by city guards off the Accra Metropolitan
Assembly (AMA).

Mr Ebenezer Obeng claimed he was met by the AMA
taskforce on Tuesday evening whilst he had
displayed his wares by a fuel station, Allied
filing station at Circle, Accra.

According to him, the AMA task force team accused
him of flouting the AMA bye-law that prohibits
selling on the pavements of the capital, an
accusation which he denied.

Speaking on Peace FM, he claimed his goods were
burnt right in his presence after which the task
force team manhandled and chopped off one his ear.


“Despite my explanations that I was selling in
front of a shop and not on the pavement, they
decided to send me over to their boss. Their boss
ordered that my shoes be burnt which they did
right in front of me. In the course of me being
questioned, one of them gave me a dirty slap for
lying.

“Whilst I was held down, one of the members of
the AMA task force team stamped on my ears with
his heavy boots, ripping off my right ear. They
told me I can take it to wherever I want”.

Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of the
Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Numo Blafo III has
discounted the young man’s claims.

According to him, Ebenezer Obeng was injured as a
result of his struggles between him and the
guards.

“We have enacted the by-laws in the AMA
prohibiting street hawking and selling on the
pavement but these guys at Circle are being
recalcitrant. Sometimes when our guys go there to
ask them to leave those places they behave
violently so in this process they were trying to
take him to our office at Holy Garden.

“When they got to the gate, he was struggling
with our personnel and in the process of
struggling they hit his head to the gate and that
is what caused him the injury”.

Numo Blafo III told Citi News that the personnel
responsible will be investigated and dealt with
should he be found culpable.

“We have got the personnel who were struggling
with trader and we have asked them to come to the
office for questioning so we can trace the victim
and know our next line of action”.

Source - Citifmonline

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