38-year-oldman assaulted by mob in bid to stall him chief
Accra, June 29, GNA- Mr Percy Amoah Gogoe, a 38- year old man, was assaulted by a mob at La, a suburb of Accra on Sunday, in a bid to install him as the Chief Fisherman of Nii Badu We (family).
Mr Gogoe, National Co-ordinator of Hopscotch and Partners, an international non-governmental organisation, said a family elder lured him to the mob numbering about 25 at about 1830 hours, who beat him up and dragged him into a taxi and drove him to his family house, four kilometres away.
He told the Ghana News Agency in an interview, that when the mob including a group of family elders, took him to the house, they held his legs and throat to the ground and slaughtered a cock and sheep and forced him to drink the blood and smeared his body with it.
Mr Gogoe said he was later confined to a small room with little ventilation for the necessary traditional rites to be performed to succeed the late Nii Gogoe Mensah II.
He said he managed to use a wooden structure to break loose but was restrained by the machete wielding mob, who promised to kill him if he tried to escape.
He said out of desperation he carved a hole in the roof and took refuge on top of the building.
“Immediately I got there, they started petering me with stones and I had to call the police to come to my aid. I was told by personnel of the La Police Station that they came to the scene but were persuaded that it was purely a traditional exercise.”
Mr Gogoe said at about 0100 hours some friends managed to smuggle a double barrel gun to him, which he used to threaten the crowd and managed to escape through a safe haven.