Government has condemned the incidence of violence that claimed the lives of three persons and led to three persons sustaining various degrees of injury after a youth protest in Ejura in the Ashanti Region yesterday.
The youth protest was after Ibrahim Mohammed, a resident of Ejura was attacked by unknown persons last Friday and subsequently died on Monday.
Addressing Journalists in Accra on Wednesday June 30, 2021, the Minister for Information condemned the act of violence and called on the security agencies to swiftly carry out investigations on the matter.
“Our security agencies should be quick and clinical in getting to the bottom of this and other unresolved crimes. While we understand that police investigations sometimes take a while, it does not instill confidence in the population if such acts go unresolved and unpunished. So, the police need to get to the bottom of this, and justice must be done”, Hon Oppong Nkrumah charged.
The Minister insisted that a credible investigation be conducted into the crowd rioting and crowd control incidence of 29th June, 2021.
He was optimistic that would bring clarity to the sequence of events and ensure that if any persons acted inappropriately, those persons would be punished.
Kaaka, 45, was reportedly attacked by some unknown people in Ejura last Friday. He died in the afternoon of Monday June 28, 2021 at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi where he was receiving treatment.
Meanwhile, checks with the Regional Police Command indicate that two suspects have since been picked up by the police in connection with the death of Kaaka.
The Minister appealed for calm even as the security agencies worked to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime to book.
Source: MOI(PR Unit)
