President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been urged to take action against the brutality perpetrated by some military personnel against civilians.
Following the death of a soldier in the town of Ashaiman, a suburb of Accra, some military personnel broke into the homes of citizens in Ashaiman on March 6 and brutalized them.
The Member of Parliament for Ashaiman, Ernest Norgbey said on the Sunrise show on 3FM that “They can be peeved because one of their own is gone but brutalizing people is not the solution to this problem.”
He added; “I know the men (military men) are coming from Michel’s camp. I have called the head there but his line is unreachable.”
Commenting on this in a tweet, Chief Operations Officer at Dalrex Finance Mr Joe Jackson said “I have several young men I call my ‘sons’ in Ashaiman. This situation scares and infuriates me in equal measure. The army must be brought to book. Soldiers who participated must be ‘court marshaled’ and thrown into jail. HE Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, please act.”
Kofi Amankwa-Manu, the Deputy Minister of Defence, has since apologized to Ghana’s citizens for the excesses that occurred on Tuesday, March 4, when some soldiers conducted an ambush in Ashaiman, a town in the Greater Accra Region.
Source – Tru News Report
