9 Months Behind Bars: NDC Supporters Wrongfully Caged In Nima Police Cell Are Vomiting Blood 

The prolonged wrongfully detention of thirteen (13) sympathisers of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) from some fishing and farming communities in the Afram Plains of the Eastern Region arrested on suspicion murder charges has affected health conditions of some suspects.

The group—comprising fishermen and farmers from Mepe, Sokpoe, Tefle, and Bakpa—has been held for nine months at Nima and Cantonment police cells in Accra without substantive evidence.

The locals alleged the arrests, targeting NDC loyalists in Afram Plains South and North, aim to suppress voter turnout ahead of the 2024 elections.  

Identified as Gideon Amedofu (63), Tetteh Avlime Amedofu, Emmanuel Azalu, Thompson Father Amedofu, Moses Awi, Agbesi Amlade, Ernest Amlade, Robert Adator, Bright Waleku, Charles Kaleh, Agbeko Agbodza, Godwin Agbodza, and Alormenyo Sokah, the detainees were seized from villages including Togorme, Kwame Gyamera, and Forifori. 

Credible information reaching the Soireenews. com indicates that some of these detainees in cell of Nima Police Command in Accra, Ghana, were vomiting blood but no proper healthcare were given to these heavily sick suspects.

According to the sources closed to the affected  health detainees, they were left in their fate and that some of them are on the verge of dying. 

"Oftentimes when we have complained of falling sick, the police CID officer with the Nima Police Command in Accra will take us to Ghana Police Hospital and the doctors would only performed various medical scanning and laboratory tests. 

"After these processes the doctors will prescrib the drugs for us to buy. Sadly whether we informed the police CID officer about this, he will tell us that they didn't have money to buy the doctor's prescribed drugs for us.

"Our health conditions have become very worse and we are experiencing a decline in health with the likelihood of death imminent. So we are appealing to our President John Dramani Mahama to come to our aid because the charges preferred against us are forge.

"We have not committed any murder as claimed by the the Assembly member of Ada Korpe electoral Area, Honourable Nicholas Taklo Tsornyake and his associates. All what the allegations they making against us of murder were certainly false and lies, the suspects have spoken through sources closed to them.

The health conditions of the suspects in the two police cells in Accra, this news outlet gathered have been characterized by a range of physical changes, including increasing weakness, difficulty in breathing, and reduced responsiveness.

Some of the suspects complained of having waist, chest and stomach pains, making them vomit frequently.

Other detainees have reported being starved in their cells, describing experiences of limited or no food, along with other forms of abuse and neglect. 

These accounts often include details of physical violence, lack of hygiene, and other forms of inhumane treatment. 

They also complained of sleeping on bare floor for the nine months, forcing them to fall sick.

"Sadly,one of the detainees get better by a venomous snake before he was arrested and detained but since he has not received better treatment before he was arrested, the said detainee is currently enduring severe pains in his whole body who needs an urgent treatment.

:Any delay in treatment following a venomous snake bite could result in serious injury or, in the worst-case scenario, death," the sources revealed.

Background 

Residents of Afram Plains in the Eastern Region are urgently calling on President John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) leadership to intervene in the prolonged detention of 13 party sympathisers arrested on murder charges widely deemed politically motivated.  

While five suspects—Emmanuel Azalu, Agbesi Amlade, Ernest Amlade, Moses Awi, and Robert Adator—were granted bail, they remain incarcerated, unable to meet the GH¢20,000 court condition for three months.  

According to the residents, these NDC members who are natives from three Tongu constituencies namely Mepe, Sokpoe, Tefle and Bakpa living in various  towns in Afram Plains South and North Districts of the Eastern Region were arrested and detained by police in Nima and Cantonment Police cells for nine (9) months on suspicion of murder.

It was revealed that some double agents and hired informants or snitches were paid to identify the homes of the suspects at midnight.

This has led to their arrest and detention by the police first for three weeks at Donkorkrom, the constituency capital of Afram Plains North and later to Nima and Cantonments police cells in Accra for nine months now.

The case hinges on a pistol-related shooting after a football match in a village none of the suspects attended. 

Residents insisted the charges, allegedly orchestrated by Ada Korpe Electoral Area Assemblyman Hon. Nicholas Taklo Tsornyake, are fabricated. Notably, the primary suspect, Fulani herdsman Bruneri Amadu, was arrested separately at Ekye Amanfro.  

“This is pure persecution,” a community leader stated. “We urge Mahama and the NDC to fight for justice and expose this plot to intimidate our voters.”