A 31-year-old Ghanaian man
is lamenting over an unfulfilled compensation package after he was left
paralysed for life by a police stray bullet in 2011.
Stephen Arthur who was shot
by an angry police constable whom he failed to give some requested amount of
money, has been paralysed from the waist down and has since been on admission
at the Cantonment Police Hospital.
According to Ghana Web
News, Doctors at the Hospital say as he has urinary incontinence, fecal
incontinence, erectile dysfunction and has his muscle power reduced, subjecting
him to be permanently dependent for the rest of his life with no hope of
regaining lost functions in his muscles, kidney, and anal.
Despite his hospital bills
been taken care of by the police with a monthly allowance of GHC500, which was
last given to him in November 2016, The Attorney-General's Department has
failed to pay compensation to him after it was agreed to an out-of-court
settlement in February 2013.
Speaking in an interview
with Joy News on yesterday, the neglected orphan said:
‘For now, my condition is
bad, I am not feeling happy. I am passing through a lot because I can't move
now. The wheelchair I sit to move around is broken down’.
He said his family members
have stopped visiting him after learning his condition might not get any
better. ‘I am here alone,’ he let out tears, adding, but for the courtesies of
some nurses he would not get some things.
Mr Arthur said he has been
told the Inspector General of Police (IGP), John Kudalor is yet to sign his
compensation package. "I want him to do that for me.’
Asked what he would do with
the package if approved, he said he would ‘start a new life, ‘I am tired of
lying in bed.’
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