A mob is said to have killed a soldier over the weekend, and more than 72 people have been apprehended by the military, according to a recent update provided to Graphic Online by the Member of Parliament for Ashaiman.
The Ashaiman MP, Ernest Henry Norgbey, says to have found out that the soldiers took the people they had detained away.
“72 persons per the briefing given me by the Assembly member for the area” have been taken into custody by the soldiers.
“But as I speak to you the police commander just told me that 72 persons is an understatement and that they are more than that, they [soldiers] are still arresting people when you go certain areas of the community,” Mr Norgbey said in a radio interview on Citi FM, monitored by Graphic Online.
The MP said the soldiers after the dawn operation left the area, the soldiers had left but around midday, he received a phone call that another batch of military men had trooped into the Ashaiman constituency.
“Actually I spoke to the police commander and he told me on authority that there are military guys still in the constituency, all the over the constituency molesting innocent residents,” he said.
He said the constituents were worried about the modus operandi of the military, “because you see armoured cars, you see military vehicles, you see helicopters, which means that this thing has been sanctioned by the higher authority and so everybody is handicapped in this matter.
“So we are just calling on them to call back their men to the barracks because these people that they are molesting, they are innocent people, I’m not sure they know anything about the killing of the military guy,” the MP said.
In a previous report published by Tru News Report, we mentioned that soldiers have allegedly been storming the Accra neighbourhood of Ashaiman since midnight, and residents claim they have been brutally attacked.
Several members of the military in Ashaiman have apparently taken the law into their own hands.
They have been going house to house and brutalising the locals. MP for Ashaiman Ernest Norgbey told Accra’s Starr Radio that there is an “unofficial curfew” in effect.
This occurred days after their colleague was allegedly stabbed to death in the neighbourhood by unidentified assailants. Several residents’ recordings of the incident went viral on social media.
Source – Tru News Report
