Former minister of state at the National Security Ministry, Bryan Acheampong, has explicitly separated himself from the security operation related with the Ayawaso West Wuogon bye-elections violence.
Bryan Acheampong, who is currently the Minister designated for Food and Agriculture, was questioned about his involvement in the violence when he went before the Appointment Committee of Parliament for vetting on Monday.
He said that he wasn't involved and ought not be considered answerable for directing the brutalities while he was in office.
"This isn't in no manner to justify what occurred in Ayawaso. However, in the 500 or more page report [of the Commission of Inquiry], there wasn't any part that mentioned that I authorized it. So everyone including myself was shocked and apprehensive that my name found expression in the end that I ought to be denounced. For that reason the White Paper dismissed that proposal since it failed to lay out the factual basis that I approved that operation."
The hostile bye-political election was held to supplant the late Emmanuel Kyeremateng Agyarko, a member f Parliament who had been serving at that time.
Six people remembered to be NDC supporters were hurt when some National Security Operatives started shooting at the La Bawaleshie polling station during the election.
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The NDC later declared its withdrawal from the contest, expressing that it did as such to stop extra attacks on its members.
Years after the violent incident, Bryan Acheampong claims that he didn't have anything to do with the operatives' sending and can't be faulted for the brutality.
"I have been cleared by the White Paper yet not enduring that, it is my soul that I need to live with. I'm a Presbyterian, and I'm a man liable for what I do and can't be liable for what every other person does. That's what i'm saying, for Ayawasyo Wagon, I didn't approve it, I know nothing about it", he added.