Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah says he personally ordered the deployment of the military to the Ejura community following intelligence that the youth had planned to burn down a police station after youth activist, Kaaka’s death.
According to report by classfmonline, the deployment was necessary to quell the protests by the angry youth.
“There are several questions that: who really ordered the soldiers to go there? I ordered them to go there. I requested the military to offer us support, as head of the Regional Security Council.”
“I got intelligence that they [youth] said after the burial of Kaaka, they will move and burn the police station and burn to death two persons who the police are keeping in custody in connection with the death of Kaaka. So, I realized that wouldn’t help, and truly they were going to do that,” Mr. Osei Mensah is quoted to have said.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
