A 32-year-old man, Prince Adaka, was almost lynched on Thursday after attacking a woman with a knife and stealing her mobile phone at Kasoa Ota City in the Awutu Senya East Municipality of the Central Region.
Information gathered indicates that the victim was on her way to work when the suspect attacked her.
The victim then started screaming for help leading to the arrest of the suspect.
The angry residents pounced on the suspect, beat him mercilessly and slashed his fingers and other parts of his body.
The suspect was later handed over to the Kasoa New Market Police for investigations.
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Over 18 people are expected to appear before court over the flogging of “sex tape” loversin Wa in the Upper West Region.
Sixteen males and two female were arrested Wednesday by the Upper West Regional Police Command for roles they played in the flogging of two people whose sex tape went viral.
Three persons were initially arrested over the same issue.
“The suspects, Sidiki Osman, Bushiran Khigir and Issahaku Mahama, were arrested with the support of the Wa Naa and some community members,” the police said.
The Network for Women’s Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT) has condemned the flogging of suspects in ”sex tape” saga in Wa in the Upper West Region.
In a statement, NETRIGHT has condemned the “barbaric” act in no uncertain terms on the grounds that it is a gross violation of the human rights of the persons involved.
According to the statement, the act is an infringement on their rights to dignity and demands that the perpetrators of this heinous act be made to face the full rigour of the law.
NETRIGHT has also called for the perpetrators of the crime and any that aided and abetted the criminal and unconstitutional act to be brought to justice.
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) also condemned the flogging of suspects in the”sex tape” saga in Wa.
Condemning the act in a statement, the GBA said the flogging of the two young persons is humiliating, dehumanizing, demeaning, degrading and amounts to the violation of their fundamental human rights.
The GBA is therefore calling on the relevant security agencies to arrest all persons involved in the physical abuse of the two young persons, investigate the incident and perpetrators are prosecuted in accordance with law.
The GBA has also advised the general public to desist from taking the law into their own hands by meting out punishments to people they suspect to have contravened the law or of having broken any moral codes of any community.
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