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A clash between two communities in the Ashanti region, last Thursday, led to the death of one and the injury of another after a police officer fired live ammunition.
Residents of Adwumakase Kese in the Afigya Kwabre South District are however disputing claims the police officer fired in defence and want a full investigation into the shooting.
Alexander Owusu, known popularly as K. Owusu was hit by a shot fired by a police officer who had come to the community in the company of two others to make arrests in Adwumakase Kese.
The incident was preceded by disagreement over land boundary with the Bomfa community.
IN one of his satirical books –
Soza Boy, if my memory serves me right – the Ogoni writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa (who was brutally executed in November 1995 by General Sani Abacha, the corrupt Nigerian dictator) wrote that corruption continued to exist in Nigeria
“because government cannot catch government”.
I laughed at that statement when I first came across it around 1986. And I was reminded of Saro-Wiwa s words the other day as I watched an extraordinary video on
Joy News, in which a very brave reporter, Erastus Asare Donkor, and his crew,
were harassed by armed military men, whilst they were covering the activities of an armed Task Force set up by the Ghana Government – the Environmental Sustainability Task Force.