Asawase youth leader, Alhaji Shola, says the citizens of Ghana are no longer safe in the hands of the Ghana Police per the report on the Asawase Killings.
Seven men were killed in Asaawase in the Ashanti Region in July 2018. The seven were allegedly mistaken by the police for members of an eight-man armed robbery gang that attacked a sprinter bus, shot dead a police officer with the SWAT Unit of the Ashanti Regional Police Command near Manso Nkwanta in the Amasie West District of the region.
The deceased officer, Lance Corporal Daniel Teiku, was on duty with his colleague, Lance Corporal Eric Nsiah, when eight armed men attacked the vehicle they were travelling in at Ayirebikrom near Manso Nkwanta on July 13.
The killings on July 7, 2018, which did not go down well with some irate youth of Asaawase, led to the blocking of all roads leading to the area from the Kumasi Central mosque. They argued that the 7 were not armed robbers.
A seven-member committee was finally instituted to investigate the killings. The committee has in a report, interdicted some twenty-one (21) police personnel and are to be subjected to a formal criminal investigation for their alleged role in the killing of seven Zongo youth at Manso Nkwanta in the Ashanti Region on July 17, 2018 on the grounds that it found no evidence that the deceased persons were armed robbers.
Speaking to Ekourba Gyasi on Atinka AM Drive, Alhaji Shola, Asaawase youth leader, stated that the Asaawase killing justifies the claims that the police have killed some innocent people in the past.
The Ashanti Regional Police Command had initially claimed that the seven, all residents of Asaawase Zongo in Kumasi were armed robbers who exchanged fire with the police. In view of this, Alhaji Shola has asked the Ashanti Regional Police commander to come out and apologise to the Asaawase youth because he lied.
“If the police can come up with such a lie, then we can as well guess the number of innocent people who have died in similar incidents,” he added.
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