The National Communication Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi and a Vice President of the policy think tank, IMANI Africa, Mr. Kofi Bentil, have described as “Shoddy” the report from the three-member committee tasked to inquire the state-sponsored murderous violence that was perpetrated by the Police and military against unarmed civilians in Ejura-Sekyeredumase in the Ashanti Region.
The two, while on Joy FM’s Newsfile program, even hinted their suspicion that the Justice Koomson Committee had probably composed the report based on a script that had been pre-determined to shield the real culpable persons behind the murders.
According to Sammy Gyamfi, the report is “a cocktail of faulty findings and deficient recommendations.”
He dismissed the Committee’s conclusion that social activist Ibrahim Mohammed, aka, Kaaka, whose dastardly murder would later provoke a street protest that the police and the military would violently crackdown, was killed in a family feud.
“The first problem I have and that for me is the most important finding, has to do with the circumstances surrounding the death of Macho Kaaka. The Committee says we think that it is more probable based on the facts available to us that Kaaka was killed as a result of a family feud and not as a result of his social activism. That is a bare-faced lie and cannot be true. Firstly, there was no evidence of any family feud in the Kaaka family before the Committee. There was no such evidence,” Gyamfi stated.
“I have been on the ground, interacted with the wife, mother of Kaaka and his brother, Iddi. They were at peace with each other as brothers when Kaaka was alive. His elder brother, Iddi, was even helping to take care of the children of kaaka. They have a very strong bond as brothers, they live in peace and love.”
He pointed out that the report glaringly ignores inconsistent testimony by one Sadia Fuseini, a neighbor of Kaaka who changed her statement to the Police questionably after first testifying that two people had bludgeoned the #FixTheCountry activist to death.
On his part, senior Vice President of IMANI-Africa, Kofi Bentil, the committee’s conclusion that Kaaka’s murder had nothing to do with his social activism only affirms the suspicion that the committee, “ was set up to find a narrative to support a preset conclusion.”
“It will be very difficult for you to convince me that the murder of a person like Kaaka, where there was evidence as in a body, where there were witnesses, people said they saw somebody drag somebody, where there was previous to that murder, threats that were reported to the police. You can’t convince me that, that is the kind of murder which is so difficult to investigate. We have not been able to find how it happened and understand anything and we have more or less just concluded that it could have been and it is this or that,” he said.