Ashaiman military brutality: We apologize for the excesses

The Deputy Minister of Defence, Kofi Amankwa-Manu has rendered an apology to the public following the military brutalities recorded at Ashaiman early hours of Tuesday, March 7.

Military brutalize residence of Ashaiman over murder of colleague

The military report said stormed Taifa, a suburb of Ashaiman at about 4:am, amidst the heavy downpour on Tuesday morning and visited on residence torture, beatings, and brutality over the murder of a young military person, Sherif Imoro.

The 21 year-old, a member of the Ghana Armed Forces Band and trumpeter stationed at Sunyani in the Bono Region, graphiconline report was murdered on Saturday, while visiting his family in Ashaiman.

Omoro was in Accra for a military course and had in the last three weeks been visiting his parents in their home at Ashaiman every Friday.

He however, met his untimely death on Saturday which would have been his third visit home since he reported for the training.

A military responds to his murder saw the unfortunate pain visited on residence.

In viral videos sighted by GhanaPlus.com, residents were made to sleep, roll flood waters and some allegedly made to drink from water fetched from gutters.

But speaking on GhanaTonight on TV3, Mr Amankwa-Manu said the development was an unfortunate fall out from what was supposed to be a military sanctioned and collaborated operation and apologize for same.

He said the young man was killed in uniform and the operation was to fish out perpetrators of the act which took his young life.

“I think that it is a rear excess I will apologies. Is a rear excesses,” Mr Amankwa-Manu said.

“Sometimes when sanctions are being carried out, you get one or two people who will get carry away and then they engage in excesses and if anybody have been affected by it, I think that its only fair that we apologies”.

“But what I want to put on records is that this is a legitimate sanctioned military operation,” Mr Amankwa-Manu emphasized.

Source: GhanaPlus.com