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Soldier detained for leaking Flagstaff House brutality video

The assault took place on January 9, 2017, the first day President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo assumed office at the Flagstaff House to work.

The video which has gone viral on social media, but its unclear how the ‘vigilante group’ chased the police officer by name ASP Nanka Bruce who sought refuge in a police vehicle.

The officer, who is believed to be part of the guards at the Flagstaff House during the John Mahama administration, was seen moving out of the premises of the presidency, but was stopped by an armed military officer and was subsequently brutalized and forced out of the car, despite attempts by senior police officers to restore order.

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The 45-year-old officer is said to have been on duty at the Flagstaff House when the assault on the senior police officer took place on January 9th, the first Monday after President Akufo-Addo's inauguration ceremony.

According to the suspects wife, Abena (pseudonym), the suspect has been detained since Friday, February 17, with no food.

Speaking to Accra-based Class FM, she said "He [Husband] has been detained for 72 hours now with no food or water,"

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"He called me on Friday that he had been called to report to the Flagstaff House but he didn’t know… why he had been called. So he left home in the afternoon and around 3:00pm, he called me that they were taking him to the office of the BNI with a couple of other soldiers. After that call, I didn’t hear anything from him again. His phone went off."

"At about 11:00pm, I had a call from someone that they had released some of the soldiers taken to BNI to report today and that my husband was one of those who were being detained. So I started getting worried because if you have not charged him with any offence why do you keep him there?" she said.

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