Ace Ghanaian Investigative Journalist, Manasseh Azure Awuni has added his voice to calls for an end to military brutalities currently being experience in the country.

Speaking in a twitter post on Thursdays, July 1,sighted by GhanaPlus.com, the multiple award-winning journalist said “Soldiers went on a rampage in Wa today, beating anybody who came their way because a soldier had lost a phone. They beat up a NADMO officer and the PRO of the regional coordinating council who went there to find out what was happening. This stupidity and impunity must end”.

Soldiers went on a rampage in Wa today, beating anybody who came their way because a soldier had lost a phone. They beat up a NADMO officer and the PRO of the regional coordinating council who went there to find out what was happening. This stupidity and impunity must end.

— Manasseh Azure Awuni (@Manasseh_Azure) July 1, 2021

Wa: Soldiers brutalize residents over alleged missing phone

His comment was in reaction to military brutalities on citizens of Wa over an alleged phone theft.

Viral video making rounds on social media on Thursday, July 1, showed armed military officers ill-treating some residents of Wa in the Upper West Regional capital over an alleged missing mobile phone.

The officers forced the civilians to sleep in the gutters while they slap and beat them in broad day light.

Eye witness report, the officers who claimed to be searching for their missing phone, stopped tricycles, one of whom the owner of the phone was believed to have left the phone and brutalized them, young men, particularly.

The officers also assaulted and seized the phone of the Public Relations Officer of the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council, Cletus Awuni who visited the scene to ascertain the situation upon an information got to him.

Speaking on TV3 News360, he revealed it took the intervention of some police personnel to save him from the hands of the military.

Two confirm dead, four hospitalized in Kaaka’s murder protest at Ejura

This assault comes just a day after the military opened fire on an unarmed demonstrators at Ejura in the Ashanti Region who were demanding justice for a social activist and a #FixTheCountry campaigner,Kaaka Anyass Ibrahim who lost his life days after a mob attack.

The development saw two dead and four others injured.

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had since directed the Minister of Interior, Mr Ambrose Dery, MP to conduct a public investigations into the development.

Source: GhanaPlus.com