A Member of Parliament’s Defence and Interior Committee, Ernest Norgbey has attributed what he described as unprofessional behaviour by security personnel dispatched to dispel rampaging youth in Ejura, Tuesday, to the recruitment of party vigilantes into the country’s security forces.

The Military personnel were captured on video shooting into the crowd, made up of the youth, who were agitating in reaction to the murder of their colleague, Ibrahim Mohammed.

Two persons died and four others were severely injured after some protesting youth of Ejura Sekyedumase clashed with the Military and Police personnel on Tuesday morning.

Speaking in an interview with Joy News' Joseph Opoku Gakpo after the clash resulted in the two casualties, the Ashaiman MP stated that the officers displayed unprofessionalism in their bid to restore peace in Ejura.

“When you look at this, unarmed civilians [were] demonstrating peacefully and you have an armed Military man or Police officer shooting live bullets at them. It is just unfortunate.

“And I will blame this on the resultant effect of recruiting party foot soldiers into the army. No professionalism,” he stressed.

The Ashaiman MP further added that, “Because if you have a professional Military person who has gone through the professional enlistment into the service, you will realise that such a person will not act with this kind of maximum force to deter crowds. That is not taught in their training institutions.”

Since the death of the 40-year-old Ibrahim Mohammed, aka Kaaka, who is a social activist in the area, the youth say they are willing to sacrifice their lives to get justice for him.

The youth stormed the Police station to inquire about the extent of investigations regarding the murder of their colleague, stressing that they want the Police to leave no stone unturned in bringing the perpetrators to book.

Pressing home their demand for justice, the youth hit the streets and were met by Military and the Police personnel.

The soldiers are alleged to have fired live bullets into the protesting crowd.

But Mr Norbey believes that, should the matter be thoroughly investigated, it will be discovered that the security personnel are “private soldiers, constables”.