The Kusaug Peoples Congress, a nonpartisan association of the people of Kusaug in the Kussaug Traditional area of the Upper East Region has made a passionate call on the government of Ghana to set up an independent inquiry to probe the recent military brutalities that led to the death of a young man with several injuries.
Addressing demonstrators in Garu, the president of the Kusaug People Congress, Prof. John Azumah called on the government to institute an independent inquiry committee to investigate the abuse meted out to the innocent cicitizens of Garu and Bugri.
“We are demanding for an independent inquiry into what happened in Garu and Bugri. we want the independent inquiry to submit their report by the first of January 2024 and we want compensation to all the victims who have been brutalized in this incident, we want those who committed this crime to be brought to account, they should be brought to justice. Those who gave the orders and those who did the beating, they should all be brought to account”.
Prof. Azumah also admonished the military and police to rig themselves off the criminal gangs that are in the police and military denting the image of the profession.
He accused the military and police of being used by the politicians for dirty works in the country thus reducing the image and the respect for the military and the police in the country.
“when the military came to Bugri and Garu, they said they were looking for weapons, they went into rooms and they stole money. Is money a weapon? you stole mobile phone and you call yourself military and you are wearing uniforms?, these are armed robbers in uniform and we want them to be brought to book”.
The demonstrators presented a petition to the Interior, National Security and Defence ministry as well as the speaker of Parliament through the districts chiefs executives for Garu and Tempane.
The districts chiefs executives who promised to deliver the petition to the appropriate ministries, claimed they had no prior knowledge of the military invasion.
Source: mywordfmonline.com/Gaspard Ayuureneeya