SOLDIERS BRUTALIZING, KILLING CIVILIANS - A DANGER TO ALL GHANAIANS 2ND JULY, 2021
Almost every few months, we hear of soldiers brutalizing someone. In more recent times, military brutality, certainly now isolated, rather than systemic, has crept back into the country with some predictable certainty. Two people died while four others got injured after some protesting youth of Ejura Sekyedumase in the Ashanti Region clashed with the military and police this Tuesday morning. Three days later, a viral video on social media yesterday showed armed military officers brutalising some residents of Wa, the Upper West Regional capital, allegedly over a missing mobile phone. The Public Relations Officer of the Upper West Regional Coordinating Council, Cletus Awuni was also beaten by the officers. “They hit my head about three times and my back, because they used the taser on my hands and my chest”, he said. In another incident, an alleged military assault on some civilians in Damongo in the West Gonja municipality of the Savannah Region on June 1, 2021 left one pers