By Erica Apeatua Addo
Tarkwa (W/R), June 2, GNA-A man who was spotted in a viral video wielding a cutlass at the Agona-Amenfi Chief’s Palace has been picked up by the Wassa Dominase District Police Command.
The suspect, identified as David Gyasi alias “Amowee,” was arrested on Friday May 29, 2026, for causing unlawful harm and threatening public safety.
This was indicated in a press statement signed by Assistant Superintendent of Police Beatrice Turkson, the Head, Public Affairs Unit Western Central Region, and copied to the Ghana News Agency.
It said around 1350 hours the police received a telephone call from Nana Kwaku Gyapong II, the chief of Agona Amenfi, that the suspect, clad in a talisman-embedded smock and wielding a cutlass, stormed the palace, attacked one Lord Kwaku and wounded him on the right wrist.
The suspect subsequently chased occupants of the palace with the cutlass, causing fear and panic, the statement said.
According to the statement, police personnel were immediately dispatched to the scene where they found a large crowd gathered at the palace premises.
It added that despite repeated orders by the police, the suspect refused to surrender and continued to chased people with the cutlass.
Police successfully disarmed the suspect, arrested him, and conveyed both him and the victim to the Roman Catholic Hospital, in Asankrangwa, where they are currently responding to treatment.
Preliminary investigations revealed that earlier that day, Nana Gyapong II was officiating a sod-cutting ceremony for the construction of a laboratory and theater block for the Agona Amenfi health centre.
The victim, Lord Kwaku had reportedly been sent to the palace to retrieve a pickaxe when he was attacked by the suspect.
GNA
Edited by Justina Hilda Paaga/Lydia Kukua Asamoah
Reporter: Erica Apeatua Addo
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