NDC’s Ibrahim Murtala slams Antwi Danso, Ejura C’tee, calls their work shambolic

The Member of Parliament for the Tamale Central Constituency, Mr Ibrahim Mohammed Murtala has slammed the the three- member committee tasked to look into the Ejura impasse which saw two dead and four others injured for linking the death of the social activist, Kaaka Ibrahim to family feud.

Speaking on TV3 NewDay on Wednesday, September 29, monitored by GhanaPlus.com, he said the committee’s work was shambolic and questioned why the committee chose to believe the account of the tenant and not the immediate family of the slain social activist.

According to him, blaming the death of the social activist on family feud was an attempt by the committee to absorb the government from the murder.

“Prof Antwi Danso, he has been someone I have long standing relationship with. When I was an undergraduate student, he was the dean of students, a very loving, very accommodating, we were always with him. When I went to do my second degree …he was my lecturer, he thought me International Economics, a very outstanding lecturer but am sorry to say that they did a shambolic work as a committee and I will tell you why”.

“He himself has indicated that Kaaka’s thought they were coming to investigate to establish who killed Kaaka and that was not what they are coming to do yet in their conclusion they find the need to talk about the murder of Kaaka all in the desperate attempt to absorb government of this murder,” he said .

“Am saying that if he himself said the family thought they were coming to investigate and the establish the killers of Kaaka but that was not the business with which they did the work they did yet they found it necessary to talk about the fact that contrarily to the views of people that Kaaka’s murder was occasioned by his social media activism that it might be a family feud. They haven’t told us whether there was an existing family feud,  they haven’t told us. They haven’t told us whether there was any problem between the two  brothers, the extent to which one of them would want to end a life of another, they haven’t told us that. Nobody is aware of any feud, if there is a family feud the extent to which someone will want to kill the other as a result of the family feud, there would have been cases in the police station,” he noted.

Kaaka’s death not directly linked to social activism probably family feud

The Ejura Committee of Inquiry, a three-member committee established by the Minister of Interior on the orders of the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo –Addo to probe into the military brutalities which claimed two lives and saw four others injured in a protest to demand justice following the death of the social activist Kaaka Ibrahim on June 29 in its report admitted the dead of the social activist triggered the development.

However indicated in the 55page report that his dead could not be linked to his social activism but it was more probably a family feud.

“We, after careful examination of the evidence relating to the events preceding the death of “Kaaka”, are convinced that the evidence as testified to by Sadia Fuseini is more reasonably probable than the unsubstantiated evidence of Abeewakas and Sahada Hudu which are more speculative. We, accordingly find that, the death of “Kaaka” was not directly linked to his
social media activism. It is more probably a family feud. This is also supported by the testimony of Aminu Mohammed a resident of Ejura and a friend of the late “Kaaka”the report said.

Source: GhanaPlus.com