The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) says it will ensure the police are held accountable in the case involving a former security man who is being denied justice four years after being shot a police officer.

Peter Aguyire said he was brutalised and shot by police officers at Bonsu in the Eastern Region and is yet to get any attention from the police administration. 

According to him, he was shot thrice; in the arm, thigh, and stomach by a police officer who had been sent to arrest him for an offense. 

Narrating the incident, Mr Aguyire said at the time of arrest, he was hungry and demanded that he ate before accompanying the officer who shot him, Addai Boamah and another officer to the police station. 

But Mr Boamah who is with the Bonsu Police in the Eastern Region was angered by Mr Aguyire’s refusal to obey instructions and pulled the trigger.

"I pleaded with them that I have not taken anything [eaten] so they should take the lead and I would come by myself, but they said no. I then told them to follow me to buy the food so we go together but they said no. 

"It was then that I told them that I cannot go to the station on an empty stomach because if day breaks and I don't eat it is not easy for me," he told Joy News Kwettey Nartey in an interview.         

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In the latest development, the Regional Coordinator of Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), Mina Mensah, says it will petition the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to demand justice for the victim.

"This is because they have the oversight responsibility in cases of human rights and they tend to take it up. In certain instances, we find a lawyer or a pro bono lawyer for the individual," she added.

Attempts by Joy News to get a response from the police administration have failed because the senior police officers contacted said they were not ready to comment on the matter. 

Joy News also contacted the head of Police Intelligence and Professional Standards (PIPS), DCOP Nenyi Ampah Benin, who said he would not go on record but says the investigations on the issue has been concluded and sent to the Police Headquarters.

He would, however, not disclose further details.

The Eastern regional police command also says they will reopen investigations once Mr Aguyir briefs them on what actually happened because the matter hasn’t come to their notice.