The Director of Operations at the National Security, Colonel Michael Opoku, yesterday took a hesitant decision to accept responsibility for the actions of the National Security operatives involved in the violence at La-Bawaleshie during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election in January. He said as the Operational Commander of the National Security SWAT, he gave the Tactical Commander of the team, …
The Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram has described as total fabrications and outright lies, the accounts of all three security ministers who appeared before the Emile Short Commission. According to him, their claims about how he ended up at the Bawaleshie polling centre were lies. Sam George said DSP Azugu who was SWAT commander for the operation by the …
Former President John Dramani Mahama has likened the violence that marred the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election to one that would happen in a war zone in Afghanistan. A group of masked national security operatives fired gunshots and wounded some 16 supporters of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) at La-Bawaleshie near the private residence of Mr Kwesi Delali Brempong, …
The West Africa Nobles Forum (WANF), a non-governmental organisation, has added its voice to the call on the government to disband all vigilante groups as a matter of urgency. “The rate at which these vigilante groups are springing up is very alarming and the wantonness of their actions is very dreadful. Our fledging democracy is under serious threat by these …
Accra Region Police Commander has rejected accusations that a district commander in whose jurisdiction the bloody by-election unfolded, was sidelined in security plans. DCOP Patrick Adusei Sarpong said, the East Legon District Police Commander, DSP George Asare was included and given leading role in Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election. That January 31 poll turned bloody as 15 persons were hospitalised as …
Kasapafmonline.com can authoritatively state that the National Democratic Congress parliamentary candidate for the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election, Delali Kwesi Brempong, will on Wednesday appear before the Justice Emile Short Commission of Inquiry probing the violence that characterized that election. This follows an invitation he received from the Commission over the weekend asking him to appear and testify. Mr. Brempong, a …
The Minister of State in charge of National Security, Thursday, January 14, used coded security words to bamboozle the three Commissioners probing the gun violence and physical assault on innocent civilians during the recently held Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election by masked armed men. Bryan Acheampong used a security term such as “operative” to encompass both the regular police and bury …
The Inspector General of Police (IGP), David Asante-Apeatu, has said he cannot influence the ongoing investigation into the violence that marred the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election on 31 January 2019 or any other ongoing investigation in the country and, so, has shrugged off calls for his resignation. Some national security operatives fired gunshots into the crowd that had gathered at …
