A senior police officer, Chief Superintendent Wisdom Akorli, has been interdicted by the Police Administration for allegedly luring a teenager into a hotel room and attempting to rape her.
Chief Superintendent Wisdom Akorli, the Divisional Commander of Akyem Oda in the Eastern Region, was said to have invited the 17-year-old girl (name withheld) from Oda to a hideout at Akim Asene, after a complaint was made against her that she had destroyed someone’s school certificate.
Chief Superintendent Akorli was caught red-handed by some residents of Asene when shrill screams of the girl at the hotel attracted them to the scene.
The incident happened last Wednesday.
Ironically, the one who made the complaint against the teenager was the girlfriend of Chief Superintendent Wisdom Akorli, after she claimed the 17-year-old girl had destroyed her certificate following a misunderstanding.
Sources at Oda said the commander’s girlfriend and the 17-year-old were close friends.
According to reports, the commander’s girlfriend had a misunderstanding with the victim and in the course of the quarrel, she allegedly tore up her friend’s certificate.
Reports said as a result of the incident, Chief Supt Akorli’s girlfriend told him to invite the girl and question her for destroying the certificate.
The commander was said to have called the girl on phone and later invited her to the hotel where he allegedly tried to defile her.
The good Samaritans who went to the rescue of the girl after her incessant screaming were able to seize the car keys of the commander as well as his uniform, to be used as evidence.
The acting director of the Police Public Affairs directorate, DSP Cephas Arthur, on Saturday confirmed the interdiction of the Oda commander on Peace FM.
He said the Police Service interdicted Chief Supt Akorli based on the seriousness of the allegations made against him, to enable the police to conduct independent investigations into the matter.
He said police officers, who are to protect the vulnerable, must not be seen taking advantage of the very people they are supposed to protect.
He said police officers, who are to protect the vulnerable, must not be seen taking advantage of the very people they are supposed to protect.
Last year January, DAILY GUIDE reported another story on Akorli bordering on morality.
According to the report, Chief Supt Akorli’s girlfriend of seven months had reported him to the police authorities in Accra for allegedly maltreating and constantly abusing her after their relationship went sour.
Then 21-year-old Comfort Tawiah of Akim Akroso near Oda, in the company of her mother and an uncle, went to the police headquarters in Accra to officially lodge a complaint of abuse against the police boss because they said the Oda police were not prepared to listen to their story, since the case involved their superior.
Comfort Tawiah and her mother also accused some policemen at Oda of complicity in the alleged abuse case, saying that C/Supt Akorli had been going to her house with some policemen to threaten and attack her.
Matters allegedly got to a head when on Wednesday, January 4, 2012, the Oda police boss, in the company of some policemen, went to Comfort Tawiah’s apartment which the police boss had rented for her, to forcibly eject her and in the process allegedly beat her up until she went into coma.
Comfort Tawiah, who confirmed the story to DAILY GUIDE, said the police chief led some policemen to her chamber-and-hall apartment at Oda at a time her mother had visited her and beat her up until she ‘fainted’ and was rushed to the Oda Government hospital.
She said through the doctors’ efforts, she was able to regain consciousness the following day.
According to reports, the police commander left behind his police cap at the scene of the incident.
Explaining the circumstances that led to her relationship with the police boss, Comfort Tawiah said she had gone to buy some food at the Oda Government Hospital canteen where she met the police boss who proposed to marry her.
According to her, even though she had a boyfriend, the police boss made her understand that he was prepared to perform the necessary customary rites, which led to their relationship.
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