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Security analyst, Emmanuel Bombande has condemned recent acts of brutality by military personnel in some parts of the country.
On Tuesday, June, 29, soldiers who were deployed to control a group of angry protestors at Ejura, were captured on video firing live bullets into the protesting crowd, resulting in the death of two residents with four others severely injured. The four are being treated at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital.
Again on Thursday, a group of soldiers were seen in a video brutalising some residents of Wa in the Upper West Region. The move is said to have been triggered by the theft of a mobile phone supposedly belonging to one of the military officers.
Describing their actions as unprofessional, during an interview with JoyNews Friday, Mr Bombande stated that the acts of impunity by the military officials is undermining public confidence in the Ghana Armed Forces.
The Senior UN Mediation Advisor is of the opinion that military High Command can only regain confidence in the citizens if it makes public, its findings at the end of the probe and bring the perpetrators to book.
According to Mr Bombande, "If the military gets away with impunity, they will continue to be indisciplined and unprofessional as we saw them beating people in the Upper West Region, Wa. I say this because when Ghanaians were horrified to see the military shoot civilians in Techiman South, the military said they were going to investigate and deal with the circumstances that led to the killing of innocent Ghanaians who were agitating around issues relating to elections. What happened to their internal investigations?
And so I will immediately concede that whatever they decide to do the public has the right to know the internal disciplinary measures they will take and not just to say it is going to be internal and they have taken actions against the perpetrators of these abuses and it ends there. Ghanaians have the right to know what exactly happened," he sated.
Meanwhile, the Interior Ministry on Thursday constituted a three-member committee to investigate the shooting of two persons at Ejura in the Ashanti Region.
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