A senior officer of the Ghana Prison Service has allegedly inflicted cutlass wounds on a 45-year-old herdsman at Ejura-Nkwanta in the Ejura-Sekyeredumasi Municipality of the Ashanti Region.
The officer is said to have assaulted the victim, Abdullai Yaro after he allowed his cattle to destroy his maize farm.
But some residents indicated that the officer has no farm near where the cattle grazed.
The victim who is currently at St. Luke Hospital has deep cuts all over his body including the head.
Narrating his ordeal, Abdullai Yaro said the officer met him around his residence when he was leading his cattle to graze.
The officer then inquired why the herdsman has brought his cattle around the area and accused him of destroying his maize farm.
Abdullai Yaro said before he could deny it, the officer spurted his face with pepper spray and attacked him with a cutlass.
He said that for the intervention of residents, he would have died.
Meanwhile, the victim’s wife, Bintu Abdullai, said her husband is innocent of the allegations leveled against him by the prison officer.
She denied allegations that her husband pulled a weapon first before the officer overpowered him.
Bintu, therefore, appealed to the government and other relevant authorities to intervene for the sake of justice.