The 19-year-old National Identification applicant who stabbed another applicant in Lower Manya Krobo Municipality of the Eastern Region is being processed for court.
According to the Odumase Krobo Police, on Monday, June 29,2020, an NIA field officer -Robert Tetteh Dapaah, stationed at Asitey a suburb of Odumase-Krobo came to the station and reported that whiles distributing Ghana Cards at Asitey Presby the young man stormed stabbed victim Tamatey Hanson, 25 years with a knife on the left side of his stomach.
Police immediately accompanied the Complainant to the scene of the crime and arrested suspect Nicholas Partey, 19, who was alleged to have committed the crime together with the exhibit knife to the station to assist with investigations.
The Police say Spot investigations revealed that suspect and victim were all at the center to collect their Ghana Card and without any act of provocation the suspect pulled a knife and stabbed the victim.
Other applicants at the center help of the victim was rushed to the Atua Government hospital for treatment where he has been admitted.
Dozens of applicants massed up at the registration Center to collect their Ghana Cards to enable them to partake in the Voters’ registration exercise but confusion broke out when some NIA officials were allegedly extorting monies from applicants before issued their cards without joining the long queues.
The agitations led to the stabbing by the suspect who was not happy that the victim was interfering.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Obed Ansah
