Esreso Timpon youth attack police station
Irate youth of Esreso Timpon in the Nyinahin District in the Ashanti Region last Sunday attacked the local police station and burnt down part of the facility.
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That was in reaction to the loss of job by a popular young man in the town, T.K., whose vehicle owner, the Station Officer of the Esreso Police Station, Chief Inspector Godfred Mensah, had fired.
As a result of the attack, the Ashanti Police Command has been compelled to relocate personnel of the station and the place closed down indefinitely.
Chief Inspector Mensah had, days earlier, taken his Mercedes Benz Sprinter bus from T. K. for inexplicable reasons.
T. K. is said to have subsequently mobilised the youth and invaded the police station to set the Benz bus and part of the station ablaze to teach his former boss a lesson.
The perpetrators of the crime have, meanwhile, absconded and are being pursued by the police.
The Ashanti Regional Police Command has cautioned against people taking the law into their own hands and resorting to acts which create insecurity.
“The command is assuring that everything will be done to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to book and is at the same time urging the general public to assist locate and arrest same,” a statement signed by the Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Police Yusif M. Tanko, said.
