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16.02.2019 General News

Ayawaso Commission: Analyst Worried Over Inconsistencies In Police Account

Ayawaso Commission: Analyst Worried Over Inconsistencies In Police Account
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A Security Analyst Festus Aboagye has said there are quite a number of inconsistencies in the statement provided by some of the witnesses who have appeared so far before the Emile Short commission investigating the Ayawaso West Wuogon violence.

According to him, the inconsistencies from the first day were reinforced on Friday by some of the evidence provided by the witnesses hauled before the commission.

Speaking on Eyewitness News, he said one of the inconsistencies he noticed was the inability of the police officials to provide an accurate figure for the number of armed security forces who were present at the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.

“One of the contradiction is one around the identity or the nature of the people who constituted the 60 men force that we saw on TV. We were told in one instance that there were 60 of them, 25 drawn from the police and 35 were national security operatives. This has been contradicted. Indeed even on Thursday, the IGP [at a press conference] contradicted that and on Friday the director general of operation was very categorical that there were no policemen or officers who were part of the masked men in black and that, as far as the police operations were concern he could only account for the police officers,” he said.

Security analyst Adam Bona has also said there were contradictions and lack of coordination between the national security chiefs that appeared before the Commission of Inquiry investigating the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.

The analyst told Citi News that he felt the testimonies by the Interior Minister, Ambrose Dery; the National Security Minister, Albert Kan Dapaah, and the Minister of state in charge of National Security, Bryan Acheampong were incoherent.

The three were the first persons to testify when the Commission of Inquiry held its first public hearing on Thursday, at the Christiansborg castle at Osu in Accra.

–citinewsroom

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