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General News on Thursday, February 14, 2019
Source: Myjoyonline.com
2019-02-14
play the videoMinister of National Security, Kan Dapaah
National Security Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah said members of the SWAT team deployed in La Bawaleshie on January 31, 2019 had fired on no one.
According to him, the team leader said that one person had been shot, but insisted that they were not responsible.
The minister said the commander was convinced "that the blow did not come from them, but probably from inside the enclosure". [of NDC parliamentary candidate, Kwasi Brempong]. "
Responding to questions put by the Emile Short commission charged with investigating the violence that characterized the Thursday by-election of Ayawaso West Wuogon, Mr. Kan-Dapaah said: [SWAT team] I do not even remember seeing such a person on the ground and the person pulled from this place. "
Just hours after the by-election at La Bawalashie Presby, shots were fired.
According to Joy News' Roland Walker, dozens of members of the security forces wearing black NSC (National Security Council) masks and black shirts stormed the polling station and began shooting at the polls. fire.
The shooting lasted 20 minutes, he said. The police intervened as the staff attacked what you think are NDC activists.
The police administration has so far collected statements from 16 victims of the shooting.
"According to my information, when they left this polling station, they all rushed into this house under surveillance. When SWAT team members eventually tried to get closer to the house, the detainees started looting the stones, "Kan Dapaah told the Commission.
He added that: "Later, they [SWAT team] also said to have heard shots coming from inside the house enclosure. Our boys then gave warning shots that they told me that they had not touched anyone.
"But obviously, I'm waiting for the end of the investigations to find out exactly what happened, how many shots were fired and if it affected anyone," he said. declared.
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