Bridget Otoo, formerly of TV3 and currently with Metro TV, has discussed her experience during the #OccupyJulorBiHouse event, which saw the arrest of over 40 protesters.
The vocal newscaster was beaten and her dress was ripped apart when she joined the protesters to register their grievances at the ruling government for the abysmal manner in which they have handled the country so far.
She claimed that she did not go beyond the protest’s regulations; rather, she was merely advocating for a mother whose son was misidentified as a protester while playing basketball and was brought into custody.
“When I got here, I heard they had been dispersed, some had been arrested so I decided to go the Accra Regional Police Station and I saw some people here.
“A woman approached me whose son has been arrested but isn’t a protester, apparently her son came to play basketball and the police saw him around the environs of 37 Military Hospital and arrested him.
“So the woman was only asking me to help her son be granted bail for any crime he committed.”
Giving more details, she stressed, “Even murderers and fraudsters in this country are bailed; what did these people do that they can’t be granted bail? Their lawyers are there; they’re not even letting them go in”.
She also recalled how a police officer would randomly pick out a person so they could be assaulted.
“While we were sitting there, one police officer, he would come out and pick people and assault them. You don’t need to do anything, they’ll just pick you.
“I was holding a guy’s phone, he was live on Twitter; now X and I was talking in the space because a question was asked on what was happening on the demonstration grounds.
“While I was talking and holding his phone, the police charged at us for doing absolutely nothing, attacking him. He ripped my bag and they pulled my dress and now I have a ripped dress,” she lamented.
The TV anchor stated during an interview with Joy News that journalists were also being attacked by the police in addition to demonstrators. She claimed that a reporter who was present to chronicle the protest’s activities was also assaulted by six police officers and that her phone was taken.
“Yes she’s here, she’s been beaten, she was attacked inside, her phone has been seized, they have beaten her in there, six police officers attacked her, because she was filming the brutalities in there.”
She explained that her phone was seized because the police officers wanted to delete the recorded information and videos from the phone to prevent circulation.
“Now they have taken her phone because they want to take the content that she recorded for her network,” Bridget stated.
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