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NDC Tackles Ejura Committee; Accuses Them Of Cover Up
The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has accused the Justice Koomson Committee that probed the Ejura disturbances of attempted cover up.
Speaking at a press conference, National Communications Officer of the NDC, Sammy Gyamfi, said the party’s scrutiny of the report is a clear indication of the government’s unwillingness to be accountable to Ghanaians in the aftermath of the unrest that left two people dead and four others injured.
“After an objective and painstaking examination of the report, we take the view that the committee’s report is a poor attempt at a cover-up. The report is full of faulty findings, flawed conclusions, and deficient recommendations, calculated to shield from accountability the murderers of a social activist, Ibrahim Muhammed aka “Maacho Kaaka” and the perpetrators of the subsequent state-sponsored killings in Ejura by the military”,
“Nothing could be further from the truth than this claim by the committee, and we in the NDC are appalled by the very laboured, albeit unsuccessful, an attempt by the committee to shield the perpetrators of that heinous crime from liability and punishment. That finding flies in the face of the facts and cannot be accepted by the Ghanaian people, who expected nothing short of the truth from any impartial inquiry worth its salt into the sad events that unfolded at Ejura”, Sammy Gyamfi added.
It said despite the clear evidence that Kaaka was killed as a result of his social activism, the committee decided to sweep that under the carpet, adding that:
“It does appear that relinking Kaaka from the “Fix the country” conversation was the main reason for the setting up of the Justice Koomson Committee, and that is precisely what they have done. To have ignored the material facts and rather come to such a contrived finding of a family feud easily gives the Justice Koomson Committee out as one with an agenda to twist the facts right from the word go. ”
