PETITION OVER THE UNLAWFUL INVASION, ATTACKS AND CRUEL ARREST OF STUDENTS OF KOFORIDUA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY UNDER THE COMMAND OF DSP KARTEY OTUMI
I write for and on behalf of the Ghana National Union of Technical students in a notice and petition over the mass wanton arrest and brutalities visited on some students of the Koforidua Technical University on Friday 14 December 2018 at the Universal Hall of the University by some Police Officers of the Eastern Regional Command led by DSP Kartey Otumi, officer in-charge of operations in the region. That about 4:00 AM in the wee hours on Friday, a fully armed officers of the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) numbering about sixty (60) were supervised to invade Universal Hostel, one of the University’s accommodation facilities without recourse to management of the University. That the armed officers unruly forced their ways into rooms of students using electric shockers, fan belts, axes, catapults, riffles and other sophisticated weapons to arrest students. That not only were the students arrested indiscriminately, they were subjected to some police drills and beaten to pulp without...