A driver’s mate is critically wounded after he was shot by a police officer at Danchira in the Ga South Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.

The victim was shot by an unprovoked police officer at a police snap checkpoint just opposite the Danchira police station.

Narrating the chilling incident to Metro News, driver of a Kia truck registered GE 9643 W, Isaac Okyere, said he was stopped at the Danchira Police snap check point on Saturday (July 27) evening after delivering electrometers to an ECG subcontracted company at Oblogo in the Weija Gbawe Municipality of the Greater Accra Region and began to drive off after answering all questions by a community police assistant at the checkpoint.

Surprisingly, Corporal Franklin Forson with service number 50987 fired into the empty bucket of the truck without any provocation, according to the driver.

The bullets from the assault rifle penetrated into the cabin and struck his mate who got severely injured and was rushed to the Trauma and Specialist Hospital in Winneba, where he is currently undergoing treatment.

The driver who looked traumatized is demanding for an independent inquiry into the matter and for justice to be served.

Although senior officers at the Danchira Police Station declined to speak, officially snippets of information gathered by Metro News suggest that the matter is being treated as a mere accident and the shooting police officer being made to bear responsibility for the medical treatment of the victim regardless of the fact that the driver has held that he was harassed and also arrested after the shooting.

Metro News’ further digging into the background of police officer Franklin Forson has revealed stark misconduct in the line of duty.

Part of the information uncovered by Metro News includes how he physically assaulted a senior police officer for attempting to record a verbal altercation between him and a police woman from the station and the matter currently pending before the Police Intelligence and Professional Standard Bureau(PIPS).

There have also been allegations of exercising brute force on suspects by Corporal Forson. Instances where he fired gunshots without any provocations and also subjecting an auto-mechanic apprentice to abuse have been narrated by the victims who wish to be protected.

All these cases even though they were reported at the Danchira police station and further to the District Police Command at Ngleshie Amanfrom, have not been attended to.

At the back of the shooting of this driver’s mate, the civilian public in the Danchira area are demanding for an in-depth investigations into the operations of police in the area as allegations of bribery, extortion, and protection of criminals, especially land guards are being leveled against the local police.