Koforidua “Mr No Shaking” finally shaken

Farouk Alhassan, also known as “Mr No shaking”, a popular businessman in Koforidua with a sharp tongue and fearless of anybody, has received an unforgettable beating which almost ended his life.

According to the Eastern Regional Police, on Christmas Day at about 2300 hours, Mr No Shaking descended his sharp tongue on the Regional Police Patrol Team on duty at the Koforidua Central Business Area at the Total Two, a popular entertainment and fuel filling station, without any justification from a respectable distance.

Regional Public Relations Officer (PRO), Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Yaw Nketia-Yeboah, who led the patrol team, said the police pretended not have heard Mr No Shaking's insulting remarks on them.

He said unfortunately for Mr No Shaking, he descended his sharp tongue on one Osei Assibey Bonsu, who was in a company of three young men from Kumasi for Christmas festivities in Koforidua.

According to ASP Nketia-Yeboah, Bonsu and his three relatives were cruiser-weight look-alike whiles Mr No shaking, a fly-weight “but fearlessly slapped Bonsu who was passing by.”

“Before one could say jack, Bonsu who had blocked the next blow gave the disrespectful Mr No Shaking an uppercut, raised him in the air and hit his attacker's head and upper body twice against a pillar by the fuel dispensing machine and slammed him on the floor,” he said.

Bonsu innocently left Mr No Shaking on the floor and joined his friends in the car at the back seat when all that while Mr No Shaking was unconscious on the floor.

Fearing for the risk, a Good Samaritan rushed in and gradually poured a bucket full of soapy water meant for washing car screens at the filling station on Mr No Shaking's upper body. He opened his eyes and looked around wondering where he was.

According to ASP Nketiah-Yeboah, he ordered his men to arrest Bonsu which the gentleman readily complied and joined the patrol team.

He said It was assumed that the police officers would thank Bonsu, the cruiser-weight fighter, instead of arresting him, but explained that although he stopped the verbal attacks on them, “no one was allowed to breach the peace in society.”

ASP Nketiah-Yeboah said four young men, known to be Mr No Shaking's bodyguards and hangers-on were looking on motionless, fearful of the presence of patrol team but however managed to lift their dispirited master to the Koforidua central police station which is nearby.

“Mr No Shaking who at this stage was soaked to the marrow, blamed his body guards for his predicament,”

He said Mr No Shaking refused to be given the police medical form or attend hospital but retorted in Twi that “foolish people, because of GH¢20.00, you want me to be killed. If I had not pretended to be dead that foolish man would have killed me” and stormed out of the police station.

ASP Nketiah-Yeboah said Bonsu was released later that night by the regional police to report on a later day.