Police nabs suspects in Ashaiman soldier’s murder

The Ghana Police Service has arrested the key suspects in the murder of 21year old soldier, murdered at Ashaiman on March 4.

A Facebook post from the service and sighted by GhanaPlus.com, said the key suspect was arrest on Thursday, March 9 at Ashaiman following a week of sustained intelligence-led operation.

“POLICE ARREST KEY SUSPECTS IN THE MURDER OF IMORO SHERRIF, A SOLDIER

The Police after a week of sustained intelligence-led operation have arrested the key suspects involved in the murder of Imoro Sherrif, the soldier who was found dead at Taifa, Ashiaman on 4th March, 2023.

Full details of the arrests made by the Police on Thursday, 9th March and at dawn today, 10th March 2023, within Ashaiman and its environs follow…,” the Facebook post reads.

Soldier murdered in Ashaiman

21 year-old, Imoro Sherrif, a member of the Ghana Armed Forces Band and trumpeter stationed at Sunyani in the Bono Region, was murdered on Saturday, March 4, at Taifa a suburb of Ashaiman while visiting his family.

Report said he 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.

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

He has since been laid to rest.

Aftermath of the soldier’s death saw military brutalities at Ashaiman early hours of Tuesday, March 7.

Innocent men, women and children were round up at about 4:am, amidst the heavy downpour on Tuesday morning beating, canned,  torture and brutally assaulted over the murder of a young military soldier.

The were made to sleep, roll in flood waters and some allegedly made to drink from water fetched from gutters.

The Deputy Minister of Defence, Mr Amankwa-Manu has apologized to Ghanaian for the accesses.

He described as an unfortunate fall out from what was supposed to be a military sanctioned and collaborated operation and apologize for same.

“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 added.

Source: GhanaPlus.com