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General News on Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Source: citinewsroom.com
2019-07-17
The aftermath of the police killings
A year after the murder of about seven men from the Zongo community in Asawase, families of bereaved families claim to be deprived of justice.
Families and the Zongo community wonder why the police who killed the men were not punished despite the recommended indictment.
A seven-member government committee was charged with investigating the shooting after the first statements that the seven men were thieves.
However, the committee found no evidence to support the police allegations, and a total of 21 police officers were involved in the killings in Manso-Nkwanta and were recommended by the police for prohibition.
Before the bans, members of the Zongo community in Kumasi expressed anger during violent protests.
Family members of the seven people accused the police of placing firearms to protect the dead after their deaths.
On January 8, 2019, President Nana Akufo-Addo announced a compensation package of 1.7 million GHS for the families of the seven young men wrongly shot by police in July 2018.
After President Nana Akufo-Addo badured the Zongo community that justice was done, the families of the bereaved asked why it took so long.
Citi News spent some time with one of the widowed women following the incident, Humu Abubakr, 37, mother of a child, who appealed to the president.
"I want to ask the president; What about the police who did this to them? They killed them for nothing. I want to ask the president, what about the police, what will they do to them? "
Zongo's Minister of Inner Cities and Development, Dr. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, acknowledged the delays and told Citi News that his team would follow up the file of the Attorney General's file.
"There were 21 police officers indicted and, according to the lawyers, there were degrees of involvement for each of them and you have to isolate them and charge them with the appropriate charge with respect to them. concerns their degree of involvement in the material. "
After the seven men were exonerated, their families received compensation of 250,000 GHc each.
But even then, they said that this money would have little weight if it was not completed by the prosecution of the police found guilty.
"These funds will help us a little, but they can not bring what would have been there if my brother was there, because what he could have done for the family would have been better than what we received," he said. said one of the relatives in mourning, on time.
The names of the arrested police officers were identified as follows:
DSP Edward Boateng
Inspr Michael Appiah
Sgt. Eric Fofie
Sgt Anthony Yankee
Sgt. Prince Mpere
Sgt. Frank Essel
Sgt. Williams Albert Davidson
Cpl Edward Baah
Cpl Kwame Anokye
Cpl Emmanuel Turkey
Cpl Samuel Ataafi
L / cpl Maybell Adoboli
Cpl Ijon Jonathan
Cpl Jonas Kantinka
G / c2 Emmanuel Papa Awotwe
G / c2 Samuel Opoku Mensah
Pw G / c2 These Afoakwa
Pw G / C2 Ivy
Cpl Frederick Acheampong
Anopansuo brilliant G / c2
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