<<Print>>

Maxwel Kofi Jumah, the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Asokwa has been accused of meting out instant justice to a suspected thief. According to Jamal Agha, a popular activist of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), the former Asokwa parliamentarian cajoled him into his car at Brewery, a suburb of Kumasi in the Ashanti Region, only to unleash thugs on him upon reaching his house. �..he ordered the gates of the house to be locked and asked where the phone I stole was. He then commanded the �macho men�, numbering about eight to beat me up. Whiles I was being pummeled by the thugs, Kofi Jumah stood aside with his phone in one hand and a pistol, which he pointed at me.....�. "..He drew closer after several minutes and said that the woman who claims to have seen me take the phone is not picking up her call but I must be honest enough to confess or else, I would be beaten to death� Jamal Agha disclosed on Okay Fm�s Ade Akye Abia. To him, his ordeal at the hands of Kofi Jumah, who is also a former Mayor of Kumasi and his brutes was brought about after he voluntarily offered himself to help in preparations towards the one week celebrations of the death of His mother in his house, in the Ashanti Regional capital. Jamal Agha further recounted that the only time he entered the main building was to help in bringing out a refrigerator from the corridors of the former Law Maker's house, into the compound but �they claimed I stole a phone that was being charged in the corridors�. He also alleged that, after being subjected to close to six hours of beatings, Kofi Jumah finally got in touch with the lady who he believed could identify the thief. But, on the word of Jamal Agha, the said lady exonerated him by stating emphatically that I am not the one he saw stealing the phone and �at that point, Kofi Jumah offered me some money as compensation, which I refused to accept�. ��I have lodged a complaint with the Central Police Station in Kumasi and also receiving medical attention whiles investigations into the matter continue,� he added.