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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.
Parents of the seven accused the police of having put up firearms to mentor people who died after their gruesome death.
President Nana Akufo-Addo announced on January 8, 2019 a GHS 1.7 million compensation for the families of the seven young men shot by the 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 Humu Abubakr, a 37-year-old mother, spent some time with one of the widowed women as a result of the incident and 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? "
Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, Minister of Inner Cities and Development of Zongo, acknowledged the delays and said Citi News his team will follow the Attorney General's case.
"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 the money will mean little if it is not completed by the pursuit 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
-Citinewsroom
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