Some concerned officers of the Ghana Police Service are calling on the government to intervene and revert the interdiction of some 21 police officers who were involved in the Manso-Nkwanta shooting incident which lead to the killing of seven.
The report of the five-member committee which was set-up to investigate the shooting incident at Manso-Nkwanta in the Ashanti region revealed the seven persons who were killed by the police in July were not robbers as reported earlier.
Consequently, the government directed the police administration to interdict all twenty-one (21) police personnel involved in the incident, and subject them to formal Police Criminal Investigation.
But the concern police, some of whom are affected by the interdiction have objected the decision of the government, claiming the investigation that led government’s decision was an “armed chaired investigation and failed to investigate the matter properly”.
According to the concern police, they believe the investigations fell short in the following ways:
“1. Government failed to add a police officer to the investigative body.
The committee failed to take statements from the personnel.
The committee failed to interrogate and interview the personnel.
The crime scene and the unit was not visited by the committee.”
The officers say they will petition government, embark on peaceful demonstrations and possibly seek legal redress if the government fails to hear them.
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As for Ghana Police, the least said about them the better. They have a field day for far too long. # Ghanaian Civilian lives matter.
going by the information above, the report appears to be a shabby and bogus one. it must be discarded. the fundamental questions is: what were the 7 zongo guys, all from the same neighbourhood in asawasi, kumasi, a distance of about 100km, doing at manso nkran at that time of the night? the government must be very careful with this n-o--n-s-e-n-s-i-c-a-l report!
whenever an incident happens to the forces the reaction or attempt to solve it has a different meaning,let same happen to a civilian then the victim thus the suffered would have to loose the case in a case of death it would be treated a ***barred word*** case. A whole MP in this country has been killed for over 3yrs and yet we are not yet be able to detect exactly who and who did the plot. some names were initially mentioned but has been discarded where are we moving to as a country which has about 71% of Christians on the land. Have we forgotten that one day God is going to judge all of us there would not be mercy for any one. According to 2nd Corinthians 5vs10. That we shall all appear the judgement seat of God,and account for ..............there would not be earthly judges to defend indefensible.