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A 20-year-old student of the Tetrem Secondary School in the Ashanti Region is heading for the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice over what he describes as unlawful detention by the police at Tetrem.Stephen Sakpaku says the police locked him up for two days after they failed to act on an alleged break-in to his room by his landlady.According to Stephen, he was arrested for allegedly threatening the life of the landlady because he reported the inaction of the police to a superior officer.Stephen claims he was denied food for one night and forced to sign a statement written by the police, after the officer on duty on his arrest tore up his original statement.The police have however denied the allegations.Stephen told Saeed Ali Yaqub of Kumasi-based LUV FM that he had travelled to his hometown after writing his West Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination and on his return, met a couple occupying his rented room.The couple was also using his mattress, and while his land lady was unperturbed after persistent demands for explanation, the police to whom he reported the predicament, were also dragging their feet, forcing him to report the matter and the policemen’s conduct to their superior.It was his decision to seek redress from a higher authority that infuriated the policemen, who he said seized him while on his way to the police station on a follow-up to the issue, and forcibly arrested him and placed him in the cells.
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