Sumaila Haleek said the mob accused him and his girlfriend of stealing the motorbike and an undisclosed amount of money belonging to a young man who hired them to retrieve the swags.
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Sumaila’s girlfriend escape after hearing that they were being sought after. A mob, however, arrested Sumaila at his father’s house in Moshie Zongo and taken to a secluded spot in the bushland outskirt of Lamashegu where they staged the brutal assault.
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Even though Sumaila denied the allegations levelled against him, the mob tortured him with heating elements, cutlasses, metal wire, stones and sticks before dumping him on a landfill site.
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“They took me to their house and locked me up and started to beat me saying I stole their bike. And used cutlass to cut my legs and heat metal iron and they used it to rob my neck, hand and even my back. When they used the heater to rob my body, they were pouring the acid in my injuries and on my face”.
He told Accra-based Starr FM that a Good Samaritan who saw the attack informed his parents. He was subsequently taken to the hospital.
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Amazingly, the parents of the victim do not want to report the incident to the police because they want him to learn from the painful ordeal.
“My parents told me I am too ‘wild’ because I’m [always] in town roaming. I’m a scammer and they told me to stop that kind of thing so they help me learn a trade but I also didn’t want to stop and learn a trade,” Sumaila said.
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Even though his health condition has stabilised after series of surgeries, he may spend some months at the hospital receiving treatment.
