Member of Parliament (MP) for Adenta constituency, Emmanuel Nii Ashie Moore has described as false police claim that the young man shot and killed during a demolishing exercise in the area was a land guard.

The deceased, who is reported to be a middle aged man, according to the police, was part of a gang of land guards, who tried to prevent the demolition of over hundred structures on the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority lands at Adenta.

Greater Accra Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Freeman Tetteh said the officers, who shot and killed the young man, acted in self defense.

He noted that the life of a police man was nearly terminated by these hooligans holding machetes and guns, so his colleagues had to quickly step in to save his life and by doing so, led to the death of the man.

“Under such circumstance you have no choice than to defend yourself when your life is in immediate danger’’, he stressed.

But Ashie Moore, on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Monday, said he can vouch for the innocence of the young man.

                                       Emmanuel Nii Ashie Moore

He stated that the deceased is just an unenthusiastic youth in Adenta village, who is protecting a land he considers an ancestral property.

Ashie Moore further disclosed that the deceased is the son of a branch Women's Organizer of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Adenta, who is currently bedridden due to stroke.

The Adenta MP said he is appalled by the posture of the police, who he says are refusing to acknowledge they erred in this circumstance.

Ashie Moore called on the police to as a matter of urgency, render an unqualified apology to the family of the deceased to prevent any reprisal attacks.