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Some soldiers were accused of brutalizing some residents of Wa in the Upper West region on Thursday.
The movement was allegedly triggered by the theft of a cell phone allegedly belonging to one of the soldiers.
The victims, who are mostly commercial tricycle drivers, motorists and pedestrians, were whipped and forced to ride on bare ground, some forced into nearby gutters.
Several of them are said to have suffered injuries to varying degrees.
Two of them are currently admitted to Wa Municipal Hospital.
One of the victims, a 29-year-old vulcanizer, Gafur Mahama is suspected of having developed a fracture in his right thigh during the assault.
Upper West Regional Coordinating Council public relations officer Cletus Awuni was also a victim.
According to him, the soldiers dragged him out of a car and questioned him for filming the incident.
“They asked me if I was filming them. Before I could realize it, they hit me three times on the head with an object. Another hit me from behind, ”he said.
He also revealed that the Upper West regional director of the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO), Mustapha Ahmed, was not spared either.
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