Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the convener of the #FixTheCountry movement, has publicly challenged the Ghana Police Service to produce receipts confirming their payment of his medical bills.
This challenge follows the Police Service’s recent statement claiming they covered his medical expenses.
On October 11, the Police described allegations that they returned Barker-Vormawor to custody due to financial constraints as “palpable falsehoods” and part of a broader effort to gain public sympathy.
In a Facebook post, Barker-Vormawor confirmed that while the police took him to the hospital, they failed to pay for his prescribed medications and tests.
He recounted that on the first day, police harassed recently released protestors visiting him, demanding they pay for his medications.
Ultimately, his brother had to give the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) 100 cedis to cover part of the costs, while some prescriptions and blood tests went unpaid.
‘’When it comes to me, they act as if all this is strange and new. The constant playing to the gallery that the Police do in my case, confirms at least to me that they are aware that what they do is wrong’’.
‘’Just this morning, I engaged in a verbal confrontation with the Police over an individual who has been in custody for 2 weeks without being brought to court. Because the CID, one Abada, says the guy should confess first’’.
After news of the police’s failure to cover his medical expenses surfaced, they reportedly sent mobile money to reimburse the amount taken from his brother.
Barker-Vormawor stated he would share the receipt of that transaction.
He recounted being returned to his cell without receiving the necessary medications.
The following morning, a CID officer confronted him angrily about the public disclosure of their inability to procure his medicines.
Later, some medications were paid for by the police, but only after they were publicly called out.
