By William Yaw Owusu
Tuesday June 22, 2010
The Ghana Youth Movement (GYM), a pressure group says it has proof that the Ministry of the Interior together with the police and military high commands are mounting pressure on the police officers assaulted by some military personnel in Kumasi recently to drop complaints against the soldiers.
“It has come to the notice of the Ghana Youth Movement that the recent brutal attacks by some military personnel in the Kumasi Metropolis on some police personnel of the MTTU will come to a dead end due to the manner in which the Military and the Police command, including the Ministry of the Interior are doing everything possible for the case not to be pursued further.”
“Police officers who suffered some brutalities for two consecutive days by some military personnel in the Kumasi Metropolis, are being forced to accept mere apologies and some compensation to kill the case,” the statement which was signed by Nana Prempeh Agyemang said.
The statement said the GYM had conversations with some of the affected officers and they all confirmed that they are under pressure to accept the compensation and apology for the case to be dropped.
“Upon conversations that we had with the affected police officers, they actually confirmed on condition of anonymity that they as a matter of fact, have been contacted to drop the case, but they are not happy about the situation.”
“They told us that if such an action has been carried out by civilians or those in the transport sector such as commercial drivers, not even a bail could have been granted them.”
“We want to express our unhappiness at the turn of events which has national security implications. Such attacks are becoming rampant in the country.”
“The attack of the police officers in Kumasi by military personnel is not the first time it has happened in the country, and if the perpetrators who should have known better are not made to face justice; it will not deter others from engaging in similar acts in future.”
“We are calling on the Ministry of interior, the Military Commander, and the IGP to immediately make public the investigations which led to the unwarranted attacks and the perpetrators to be brought to book immediately to avert such situations in future.”
“We will not hesitate to demonstrate on behalf of the officers who cannot take such an action due to their nature of work to seek proper redress for them.
Later in a telephone interview Nana Agyemang claimed the Police MTTU in Kumasi is said not to be happy with the pressure from Accra to drop the case and would want to see it pursued to serve as deterrent to others.
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