Punish ASP Jalil for assaulting DSP Nanka Bruce at Jubilee House – Dr Bona appeals to Mahama

Security analyst Dr Adam Bona has called on the Mahama administration to revisit and punish the police officer who assaulted DSP Nanka Bruce at the Jubilee House in January 2017 during the Akufo-Addo presidency.

The incident involved ASP Jalil Bawa, who brutally attacked DSP Nanka Bruce, then Director in charge of VVIP at the Flagstaff House. A surveillance video of the assault went viral on social media, sparking public outrage.

Although the matter was raised in Parliament by the then Kumbungu MP, Ras Mubarak, the case seemingly disappeared from the public eye as the Attorney General’s department showed little interest in pursuing prosecution.

“Mr Speaker, I’m aware of a report made by one DSP Nanka Bruce, Director in charge of the VVIP at the Flagstaff House on 9th January 2017, in which he reported an assault on him by an ex-policeman named Jalil [Bawa] and one Abu. The matter is currently under investigation by the Police CID, and efforts are being made to get the suspects arrested,” Ras Mubarak stated in Parliament at the time.

Commenting on the issue on Metro TV on Monday, 6 January 2024, Dr Bona criticised the state’s failure to punish ASP Jalil, arguing that it has emboldened him to act with impunity.

“I expect the Mahama government to deal with the hoodlums who took over and assaulted other people at the Jubilee House. Someone like ASP Jalil accosted a police officer called DSP Nanka Bruce at the Jubilee House and beat him up like an animal, went to his home also and beat him up, and this happened under the purported human rights activist president, and no one punished this ASP, and he is still in uniform,” Dr Bona remarked.

At the time of the incident, ASP Jalil Bawa had been dismissed from the Ghana Police Service. He later became a leading member of the NPP’s private security group, popularly known as the Invisible Forces.

Following the NPP’s assumption of power, ASP Jalil was reinstated into the police service by the Akufo-Addo government and given a special recommendation to attend the police academy to become an officer.

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