The Ashanti Regional Minister Simon Osei has admitted deploying the Military officers who shot into a crowd of protestors at Ejura, killing two and injuring four.
In an interview on Kasapa FM monitored by Mynewsafric.com, Mr. Osei Mensah owned up to the deployment of the military as a backup for the Police in the area after he received intelligence on the ground.
“There are several questions that who really ordered the soldiers to go there. I ordered them to go there. I requested for the military to offer us support as head of the Regional Security Council,” he said.
“I got intel that they (youth) said after the burial of Kaaka, they will move and burn the Police Station and burn to death two persons who the Police are keeping in custody in connection with the death of Kaaka. So I realized that wouldn’t help and truly they were going to do that,” he stated.
Mr. Mensah’s revelation comes to clarify questions being asked by many regarding whether the military and Police officers had been officially deployed to quell the demonstration by unarmed civilians at Ejura.
In a video capturing their confrontation with the demonstrators, some officers are seen shooting into the crowd which had been demonstrating over the murder of a #FixTheCountry Movement sympathiser, Ibrahim Mohammed, alias Macho Kaaka.
Simon Osei Mensah’s confession comes after Interior Minister Ambrose Dery, set up a 3-member committee to conduct a Public Inquiry into the circumstances that led to the killings after President Akufo-Addo had ordered a probe.
The Minister is expected to present a comprehensive report with recommendations next week.
