A Ghanaian footballer by the name Arthur who plies his trade in South Africa has been reportedly shot by the police.
Multiple media sources confirmed the report. These reports claim that the footballer had done nothing wrong.
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The footballer was allegedly shot in both legs from close range at the Kempton Park, a main place in the city of Ekurhuleni in the Gauteng province, South Africa.
When Ghana’s High Commissioner to South Africa, H. E. George Ayisi Boateng, received a briefing about the incident, he took Arthur to the Life Groenkloof Hospital – a private hospital in Pretoria reports Ghana Web.
Ghana Web has also published a photograph alleged to be that of the footballer recovering in Life Groenkloof Hospital.
Ghana Web said – “Boateng has engaged the appropriate authorities to ensure the unscrupulous culprits are brought to book.”
Another online publisher, Ghana Soccer, noted that Arthur was responding to treatment and might soon be discouraged.
Arthur who had been playing in SA for two years was shot after an altercation between him and the police.
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