The Legon Police say they are currently screening a number of students of the University of Ghana, suspected to have been involved in molesting Amina Haruna, an alleged thief who the police said had earlier been arrested twice for the same offence on the Legon campus.
The university has also indicated in a press release issued on Wednesday, April 20, 2011, that a Fact Finding Committee set up by the school had since Tuesday, April 12, completed its work and submitted a report to the Vice-Chancellor, who is the Head of the Disciplinary Committee.
“The Fact-Finding Committee appointed by the executive committee of the University to look into the circumstances leading to the mentioned event has completed its work and submitted a report on its findings to the Dean of Students and the Vice-Chancellor on Tuesday, 12th April 20II. The committee identified a number of students who were present during the molestation as seen in the video clips produced and also from credible eye-witness accounts,” the press release stated.
Following this development, a number of students who were identified were handed over to the police to assist in its investigations.
“Without any prejudice to the provisions statutes of the University, the list of persons duly identified in the report of the Fact-Finding Committee has been handed over to the Ghana Police Service for its own investigations,” it stated.
The university said that “based on the recommendations of the Fact-Finding Committee, the Vice-Chancellor, in his capacity as the chief disciplinary officer of the University, has referred the case against the persons mentioned in the report to the Disciplinary Committee for students.”
Those persons were invited to meet with the Disciplinary Committee as per a Writ of Summons issued on Wednesday, 13th April, 2011.
The school authorities assured the university and the general public that it would not relent in the discovery and sanctioning of the culprits.
“Management would like to assure the University community and the general public that it is doing all that is possible to bring to book and sanction all those involved in the despicable act seen in the video.”
Amina Haruna, a resident of Maamobi in Accra, was on Thursday, March 31, 2011, stripped naked when she was arrested by students of the Mensah Sarbah Hall on the Legon campus for allegedly stealing a number of mobile phones and a laptop computer.
Though some of the students were seen trying to free her from the claws of her captors, others were seen eagerly stretching her thighs wide open for their colleagues to insert their fingers and even mobile phones into her vagina, revealing her clitoral region.
Amina’s brassiere and her underpants where shredded and even snatched away, leaving her stark naked for the boys to do their own thing despite her pleas for leniency.
The Legon Police told media persons that Amina had twice been arrested for a similar offence and was arraigned.
She jumped bail after an Accra Circuit Court granted her bail.
The police had since sought a bench warrant to arrest her, but were unsuccessful until the unfortunate incident.
However the Legon Police Commander, Chief Superintendent Frank Anning, told DAILY GUIDE in an earlier interview that the Police would arraign Amina and her assailants as well, since the law had no place for offenders and those who took the law into their own hands.
Amina said, but for the intervention and care by her grandmother, would have committed suicide.
She feels dejected as her fiancé has also deserted her and revoked plans to marry her.
