A final year pharmacy student at the University of Ghana, Legon was detained Wednesday at the Korle Bu Police station after he stalked the First Lady, Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo with a placard protesting the failure of government to open the University of Ghana Medical Centre (UGMC).
The First Lady was delivering a speech at the sod cutting ceremony for the construction of a one-storey Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH) in Accra.
The 25-year-old man, Mr Reginald Sekyi-Brown was arrested after he walked from the audience holding a placard with the inscription “#OPEN UGMC NOW” and stood beside the First Lady.
Mr Sakyi-Brown was then approached by a police officer to move away but he did not budge.
Attempts by the police to get him to leave his position failed as he resisted their moves to move him from where he stood.
The police then reportedly applied force by pushing him from the scene to the entrance of the children’s ward.
At the entrance, he was interrogated for a few minutes before he was taken away to the police station.
He has since been granted a police inquiry bail pending further investigations.
Source: Graphic.com
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Think before you write/talk. We are now in a country where we can't reason to see that anything wrong is wrong. How do you understand assault?
He had a message and he delivered it. what was his crime? Release him immediately. Did he assault the first lady?
This has happened many a times. How is our Security in Ghana like. They look on for this to happen and then arrest the offenders. There is a serious Security lapses in our system. Heads must roll before something serious happens. Must we wait for it to happen before we take action? or we are waiting to form committee to investigate an incident? Ghana is indeed a joke with jokers at the helms of affairs. Are our security agencies really thinking?
See this fellow too, so you dare carry a card in protest and you stand by the first lady?. good for you, you should have tried it JJ era and JDM time. What has the first lady got to do with your protest, just really misplace so when you see the minister of health then what will you do. This guy is suppose to be educated? tweaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Freedom of speech should not be stifled. Man, I support you.
So this is what Ghana has become.......ken Agyapong bonks all the fair young ladies in NPP..........and then john boadu the general secretary himself drives the fair ladies to QUACK hospitals for liposuction....eishh.....CONCERT PARTY.....leave the boy alone