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Major-Gen Oppong Peprah, the Army Chief of Staff (CDS) and his team at Wa Naa Palace
Major General Thomas Oppong-Peprah, Chief of Staff of the Army (COAS) apologized to Wa Naa Fuseini Seidu Pelpuo IV, the overlord of the traditional Waala area and the people of Wa for the brutalities soldiers in the Upper West capital of Wa on Thursday, July 1.
Major General Oppong-Peprah condemned the actions of the rampaging military, saying, “We will not allow a few of them to destroy the golden relationship that exists between the good people in this region and the military.”
SFOC apologized to Wa on Friday when he led a delegation from the military high command to pay a courtesy visit to Wa Naa Pelpuo, as part of a day-long working visit to Wa in relation with the incident.
“I want to assure you that today we are going to pick up everyone who has been involved in this and exercise the maximum penalty in accordance with our code of service discipline,” he said.
He said they felt it imperative to apologize to the leaders and people of the region as the cooperation of the people was needed to enable them to fulfill their mandate of securing the country, especially at a time when the country was facing to “a new form of threat. From terrorists from neighboring Burkina Faso.
Major General Oppong-Peprah said the government had invested a lot of resources to establish a regiment in the region to help consolidate the peace that was enjoyed by the region and gave assurances that these soldiers would not go unpunished.
Some soldiers allegedly attacked and assaulted civilians in Wa on Thursday, July 1, 2021, for the alleged theft of their colleague’s cell phone.
Naa Pelpuo said the atrocities inflicted on the population should be of concern to well-meaning citizens and called for immediate and severe punishment for the perpetrators of the atrocities.
He called the act “despicable” and “unacceptable” since Wa was a charitable beacon of peace in the country. “
However, he was plunged into a state of panic when the rampaging uniformed men pounced on unarmed and unsuspecting civilians.
Naa Pelpuo called on the government to provide compensation to victims of military brutality in order to alleviate their plight and cover their hospital bills.
“Anyone in the operational zone of the men we pay to protect us could have been the victim of their senseless and bestial brutality… A group of men in uniform chased some people into the house of one of my revered leaders, the Guli-Naa, who is also a former member of the State Council, ”said Naa Pelpuo.
Meanwhile, Chief Inspector Gideon Ohene Boateng, public relations manager for the Upper West region of the Ghana Police Service, said police also spotted the viral video on social media and the commander Regional Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP), Mr. Francis Aboagye Nyarko, together with his team decided whether the video was really credible.
He said that after ascertaining the credibility of the video, the regional commander asked the head of crime to immediately open an investigation into the matter so that the perpetrators can be brought to justice.
Mr Cletus Awuni, public relations manager for the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council, who was also a victim, said he had received calls from media professionals about it and wanted to follow up to validate the information.
“When I got into the main traffic, I saw the soldiers beating people up and down and I ordered some to roll over on the ground,” he said.
He said when he asked one of them about their action but he didn’t care.
Therefore, he began to film the action, which resulted in the brutality inflicted on him.
He has since been treated at the regional hospital and been discharged.
Meanwhile, authorities at Wa Municipal Hospital reported that three victims of military brutality were admitted to the hospital, two of whom were treated and released.
The last one, who had a broken leg, was sent to the regional hospital for specialist care.
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