Social and political strain group OccupyGhana has scrutinized the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) for participating in a retaliatory assault when it mistreated Ashaiman occupants last week.
In a public statement on Thursday, it said despite examinations by the Police, it has become obvious that "the whole activity by the military was simply and just in reprisal against individuals of Ashiaman for a wrongdoing carried out by a couple of individuals."
This comes after occupants of Taifa, a suburb of Ashaiman were mistreated on Walk 7, by certain troopers days after their partner was supposedly cut to death by obscure aggressors nearby.
Depicting the military action as "boorish, absolutely inappropriate, totally illegal and unlawful", OccupyGhana said, "Obviously, had this happened to some other resident, the military could not have possibly interceded.
"The incongruity is that the presence of the military as a battling force and the arms they bear and convey are upheld and provided by the duties of similar residents against whom they released that reprisal."
As the blamed people are confronting the law, OccupyGhana said, "officers and supervisors who embraced the act after they happened should leave.
Likewise, it is requesting that "the Central leadership of the military should apologize to everybody the military exposed to these infringement. Furthermore, fourth, the state should repay each impacted individual."
Peruse their full statement below:
OccupyGhana like most Ghanaians are sickened at the silly and uncouth killing of the youthful trooper, lmoro Sheriff, in Ashiaman in the early long stretches of 4 March 2023 by then-obscure aggressors. We make a move to expand our most profound and most genuine sympathies to his family and friends and family. We are delighted that the police seem to have finished up their investigation, and the charged people are as of now under the steady gaze of the court to be attempted, and whenever sentenced, properly rebuffed for this appalling wrongdoing.
We are similarly alarmed at the likewise boorish, absolutely inappropriate, totally illegal and unlawful response of the military. The risible supports set forward by the military in the official statement gave by its Branch of Advertising on 7 Walk 2023 have been uncovered as misleading by the realities given by the police in their public statement dated 12 March 2023, that the lamentable demise came about because of a thought burglary endeavor. Hence, this might have happened anyplace in Ghana and to any resident of Ghana.
What has become evident is that the whole activity by the military was absolutely and basically in reprisal against individuals of Ashiaman for a wrongdoing carried out by a couple of individuals. Obviously, had this happened to some other resident, the military could not have possibly interceded. The incongruity is that the presence of the military as a battling force and the arms they bear and send are upheld and provided by the duties of similar residents against whom they released that reprisal.
There is in this way no avocation for the aggravation, enduring and torment that the warriors visited on obviously honest individuals, sometime later. Any powers of capture that the military might profess to have, is the same as the capture powers of any resident of this nation, as controlled by the Constitution. The Constitution requests 'sensible doubt' that the particular individual captured has committed an offense. A mass plunge that happens days after an offense, and confines upwards of 184 individuals can't be founded on any doubt that every one of them had committed the offense. What's more, regardless of whether any such doubt seemingly existed, it would be horribly preposterous, outlandish and unreasonable. In this way, the military outlandishly disregarded the sacred right to fair treatment of each and every individual they confined.
Further, our respected Constitution ensures sacred poise to all Ghanaians, regardless of whether we are associated with having perpetrated a wrongdoing. Not a single one of us is to be exposed to 'torment or other brutal, barbaric or debasing treatment or discipline' or 'whatever other condition that degrades or is probably going to reduce [our] pride and worth as individuals.' These privileges of every one of the Ashiaman inhabitants have likewise been seriously disregarded. The tactical themselves seem to have shot and shared recordings of exposing these residents to unspeakable outrages, making a flat out and add up to a joke of what our Constitution addresses and what they see their part in the Ghanaian culture as. With these brutal demonstrations, they made themselves, judge, jury and killer, and an entirely horrendous one at that!
The blamed people are confronting the law, and which is all well and good. The culprits of these infringement should likewise confront the law. In the first place, the tactical staff included and each official who approved those activities should be attempted. Second, officials and bosses who supported the demonstrations after they happened should leave. Third, the Central leadership of the military should apologize to everybody the military exposed to these infringement. Also, fourth, the state should repay each impacted individual.
However, more significantly, we want to determine and guarantee that this doesn't reoccur. The military should acknowledge that under this Constitution, they can't practice any powers that they consider fit. The Constitution gives that they 'be prepared and kept up with to play out their job of protection of Ghana as well as such different capabilities for the advancement of Ghana as the President might decide.' Subsequently, the main reasons we prepare and keep up with the military are (I) the 'guard of Ghana,' and (ii) not entirely set in stone by the President, which do exclude how they treated individuals of Ashiaman on 4 Walk 2023.
The military and any remaining security organizations should safeguard individuals of Ghana, not turn on us. It is about time they recognized this. We request this for God and our Country.