A twenty-five-year-old trader and a resident of Texpo, a suburb of Spintex Accra, Anoma Promise has bitten off the right finger of a police officer who was assigned to arrest him while resisting arrest.
The police officer, General Sergeant Abu Kwame and three other police officers stationed at Nungua police station were going to arrest Anoma Promise on the third of this month.
He had requested to make a call after the police informed him that he was under arrest.
He was allowed to make the call though he kept over thirty minutes on the phone.
The accused person, after the call was ushered into the police vehicle but was hesitant and struggled with officer Abu Kwame and bit one of his right fingers.
The police officers called for re-enforcement, after which some force was applied to arrest the trader.
The court presided over by Jane Harriet Akweley Quaye adjourned the case to the 29th of this month.
