Youths Besieged Wa Police Station To Demand Release Of The Three Arrested People

Report coming from Wa indicates that, 18 people were been arrested when some youth in the Wa Municipality besieged the police station to demand the release of the threee people who were arrested in connection to flogging of the youth who got their sex tape leaked.

The youth according to an eyewitness blocked roads and burn tires to show that they were really angry and needed their people to be released.

A crowd of about 1000 youth besieged the frontage of the Wa police station charge office on June 22nd at 2145 hours, attempting to attack the police station.

They attacked the police station to force the police to free one Bushira Khidir, 34, a cell phone repairer, and two others who had been arrested earlier in the day and were in police custody.

 It is alleged that the arrested people are involved in the flogging of a young man and lady, all believed to be in their late twenties and accused of leaking their sex video.

The enraged adolescent hurled stones and other tools at the charge office and nearby offices.

The teens also set fire to vehicle tires on some of the municipality's key thoroughfares, such as Insurance Road and Rawlings High Street.

Background

Three people have been arrested by the upper west regional police command in connection with the flogging of two people over a leaked sex film.

The individual who transported the victims to the police station, as well as wo sub-chiefs, are among the three suspects.

The suspects are still being interrogated, according to a source.

According to reports, the two were apprehended by several young men in the town and taken to the palace, but the Wa Naa was not present, so the victims were punished on their own.

The incident grabbed the attention of Ghanaians, who demanded that those responsible be sanctioned.

According to DCOP Peter Ndekugri, the Upper West Regional Police Commander, the palace is working with the police to apprehend the criminals.