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Ghanaian TV personality, Bridget Otoo has shared her ordeal during the #OccupyJulorBiHouse protest which resulted in over 40 demonstrators getting arrested.
While she was allegedly attacked, other reporters were assaulted by officers of the Ghana Police Service.
According to her, she did not violate the rules of the demonstration, but was only pleading on behalf of a woman whose son after playing basketball was mistaken to be a protester and arrested.
“When I got here, I heard they had been dispersed, some have been arrested so I decided to go the Accra Regional Police Station and I saw some people here.
“A woman approached me whose son has been arrested but isn’t a protester, apparently her son came to play basketball and the police saw him around the environs of 37 Military Hospital and arrested him.
“So the woman was only asking me to help her son be granted bail for any crime he committed."
Giving more details, she stressed that, "Even murderers and fraudsters in this country are bailed, what did these people do that they can’t be granted bail, their lawyers are there, they’re not even letting them go in”.
She also recalled how a police officer will randomly picking out a person so they could be assaulted.
"While we were sitting there, one police officer, he would come out and pick people and assault them. You don’t need to do anything, they’ll just pick you.
“I was holding a guy’s phone, he was live on Twitter, now X and I was talking in the space because a question was asked on what was happening on the demonstration grounds.
“While I was talking and holding his phone, the police charged at us for doing absolutely nothing, attacking him. He ripped my bag and they pulled my dress and now I have a ripped dress,” she lamented.
In an interview with Joy News, the TV host noted that the police was not only attacking protesters but journalists as well.
According to her, a reporter who was in there covering events of the ongoing protest also got beaten by six police officers and her phone was seized as well.
“Yes she’s here, she’s been beaten, she was attacked inside, her phone has been seized, they have beaten her in there, six police officers attacked her, because she was filming the brutalities in there.”
She explained that her phone was seized because the police officers wanted to delete the recorded information and videos from the phone to prevent circulation.
“Now they have taken her phone because they want to take the content that she recorded for her network,” Bridget stated.
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