Three college students in court docket for assaulting a jail officer have been granted GH¢60k bail.
Emmanuel Atitso, 20, Harmless Owusu, 18 and Godsway Lumorvi, had been hauled earlier than the Adentan Circuit Court docket.
The trio assaulted the officer, Stephen Nartey, through the current voter exhibition train on the West African Senior Excessive College in Adenta.
In line with the prosecution, on August 21, 2024, round 4:00 pm, Nartey and his colleagues had been standing about 70 metres from the exhibition centre, observing a faculty cadet rehearsal, when the incident occurred.
The complainant, officer Nartey, immediately began coughing attributable to a substance sprayed within the air.
Upon investigation, he noticed that Atitso was holding pepper spray and demonstrating it on a 10-year-old boy close by.
When officer Nartey confronted Atitso and tried to confiscate the pepper spray, Atitso resisted and punched the officer within the face.
Though two of Nartey’s colleagues tried to calm the scenario, Owusu, Lumorvi, and different cadet members intervened, overpowering the officers.
Within the scuffle, Owusu additionally punched Nartey, serving to Atitso escape from the scene.
Lumorvi then picked up a stick and, together with Owusu and different college students, attacked the officers on responsibility.
The Adenta Police Patrol Group was known as to the scene, which led to Owusu and Lumorvi’s apprehension.
The police later arrested Atitso.