“These military officers dragged and forced some workers in Tulaku to drink the waste water of the Slaughterhouse. If you know the place very well, you will be surprised by some of the activities… They were also forced to take cow feces and it caused them psychologically, “ citinewsroom.com quoted the lawmaker as saying.
Former President Mahama has requested “Appropriate compensation for all those affected”, adding “There are obviously many people who live and work in Ashaiman who are innocent of this crime. The military must, therefore, not carry out extra-legal justice for them.
A pressure group – Ashaiman Lives Matter – called on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to set up a committee to investigate the invasion of Ashaiman and the brutality inflicted on the residents.
According to the group consisting of former Ashaiman MP, Alfred Agbesi and current MP Ernest Norgbey and others, Ashaiman residents have been traumatized and scared after being attacked by soldiers on Tuesday, March 7. .
“Now we are always fearing for our dear lives because the soldiers are telling the residents that this is Operation Sasi and they have instructions from above to fear God to avenge the killing of the dead soldiers.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the press, we Ashaiman condemn the animal behavior of the Ghana Armed Forces, and we also call on the President of the Republic of Ghana, His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo Danquah, the Commander-in-Chief of Ghana. The Armed Forces also do the same and apologize to the good men of Ashaiman for the criminal conduct of his troops,” the group said in a statement.
Soldiers raided the homes of Ashaiman residents on Tuesday amid torrential rains across the country that inundated parts of Accra with several lives lost due to flooding.
With military helicopters hovering over the area, the soldiers carried out a bloody attack on the residents in the name of searching for the killer of a young military officer, Imoro Sherriff who was allegedly stabbed to death in Taifa suburb of Ashaiman on Saturday, March 4. , 2023
The development sparked a backlash with analysts condemning the operation, saying the killing of the soldier was barbaric, only the police had the legal mandate to carry out the exercise and not the military.
Meanwhile, 150 of the 184 people arrested by the soldiers have been released.
The remains of the 21-year-old military man who promised to be laid to rest on Thursday, March 9 at the Burma Camp cemetery. His body was prepared for burial at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra where the National High Priest, Sheik Osman Nuhu Sharubutu prayed for his soul after some Islamic rituals.