Member of Parliament for the Wa Central Constituency, Mr Rahid Pelpuo, has hinted he will sue government for damages over the brutalities resident of Wa suffered in the hands of the military on Thursdays over an alleged missing phone.

He has therefore asked persons who were affected by the development to report to the nearest police stations, pick up police forms for check up at any medical facility for the necessary steps to be taken to ensure they were adequately compensated for the ordeal.

Mr Rashid Pelpuo was speaking on TV3 News360 on Thursday, July 1, monitored by GhanaPlus.com .

According to him, military brutalities on innocent Ghanaians were becoming one too many in recent times and that had to be stopped adding that he would ensure the personnel seen in the video were prosecuted to deter others from perpetrating same.

He noted the military went mad, attack every body, caused panic, hurt people, abuse the right of people, took away the confidence of people to walk on the street of Wa and caused harm to them, one of whom sustain a broken leg while trying to escape.

“ I am insisting that anybody who was hurt should go to the police, go to the hospital get a hospital report and I am going to ask for compensation for these people. We cannot have the military take the law into their own hand at all time, as and when they like. You go to Odododiodoo they beat up people, they kill people, you go to Techiman, they have killed people, you go to Ejura, they have killed people, beat them up, I mean, beating people, shooting at them is unacceptable. We cannot have this country run into this situation”.

Military brutalities unacceptable

Mr Pelpuo described as unacceptable the developing gaining momentum in recent times adding that Ghana was a democratic country and such occurrences had no space in current dispensation as a democratic state.

“We have suffered for this country, we have gotten a democracy, we have had the 992 constitution, we have parliament, we have the security we have law and order, We can’t have people behave the way they want to behave and just go free with it and I think that the people who are hurt should take police forms, go to the hospital and then later on we can ask for compensation and ask for prosecution of those who behave the way they behave,” he insisted.

A viral video on social media on Thursday, July 1, 2021, showed armed military officers brutalizing some residents of Wa, in the Upper West Regional of the country, allegedly over a missing mobile phone.

The officers forced the resident, mostly young men to sleep in the gutters while they slap and beat them.

The missing phone

Narrating the incident of the missing phone from the military account gathered by him , the Wa Central MP said the supposed phone was snatched from the hands of the military man together with other items while returning from a shopping mall by a young man hence he organised his colleagues to attack every one they met on the street of Wa.

“When I met the military command, the person I met was one of the leaders, the person I met also told me he didn’t also know why the people did what they did but closely he also understood it that one of the junior soldiers told him he was coming from a super market Melcom, he bought some items including a mobile phone and he notice two guys were following him and one of them seize the items and run away with it and because of that he went to organized his people to beat anybody they see on the street,” he said.

Source: GhanaPlus.com