A group of policemen, numbering about seven, on Wednesday afternoon brutally assaulted a middle aged security officer of the Mugnum Force Security, who was on duty at the Kotoka International Airport, and subsequently dumped at the Airport Police Station cells for several hours. The assailants, according to The Chronicle investigations, undertook the unofficial operation to avenge an alleged assault on a police officer by the victim a week ago. Narrating the incident to The Chronicle, Mr Paul Wordui, the security officer who was assaulted, said on April 26, this year, while on duty, two men in mufti approached the security personnel at the entrance of the departure hall of the Kotoka International Airport, of which he was part, to effect an arrest. He said they however asked the two men to produce their identity cards which indicated that they were truly policemen before they would be allowed entry into the departure hall to effect the said arrest, but the two took offence, and questioned what power they had to stop them from entering the hall. This, he said, resulted in heated exchanges between the men on duty and the two policemen, who were bent on entering the hall. He continued that in the heat of the scuffle, one of the police officers at the Airport, popularly known as "Red," intervened, and subsequently effected the arrest of the two supposed police officers. He said while leaving the premises, one of the police officers told the victim that he would be back to teach him a lesson. According to the victim, at about 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, some seven fully armed police personnel came to the entrance of the Departure Hall to arrest him. He said, when he asked the reason for his arrest, the policemen pounced on him, battered him with sticks, handcuffed him, and dumped him at the Airport Police Station. He was however released on bail later in the day by the Managing Director of Mugnum Force, the private security employed by the Airport Company to keep guard at the frontage of the Airport. The Chronicle's investigations indicate that three of the police officials who undertook the operation are stationed at the Airport Police Station while the rest were part of a patrol team from other stations. The paper’s investigations gathered that officers at the station are seriously investigating the incident as the operation was not authorised by any officer at the Airport Police Station. Source: Chronicle