The National Democratic Congress(NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Asutifi North, Hon. Ebenezer Kwaku Addo has been fingered for the mob attack on nine soldiers.
It would be recalled that MyNewsGh.com reported that some nine (9) soldiers on national duties to Goaso in the Ahafo Region narrowly escaped lynching from armed galamseyers after they arrested them.
The soldiers had spotted an illegal mining site at Bronikrom near Hwidiem, stormed the site and arrested the owner. They were also reported to have confiscated two vehicles, mobile phones and two pistols, and as well set some wooden structures and mining equipment belonging to the owner on fire.
The move did not go down well with some residents of the area numbering over 600, who stormed Hwidiem police station where the soldiers had gone to lodge an official complaint and demanded the immediate release of the two seized vehicles and requested the police to hand over the soldiers to to be disciplined.
In the account of journalist Erastus Asare Donkor, Member of Parliament for Asutifi North, Hon. Ebenezer Kwaku Addo, arrived at the scene with several thugs.
The MP indicated that he was sent by Hon Collins Dauda, MP for the area and demanded that the Director releases the arrested kingpins, including a Burkinabe immediately and remove their handcuffs, arguing that he did not want the locals to see them in handcuffs. The Director politely declined the unlawful request, maintaining that the arrests were appropriate and that the right procedure be followed through to the Police.
Subsequently, the MP and the thugs became violent and forcefully snatched the handcuff keys from one of the soldiers and took the handcuffs off the kingpins before chasing the NAIMOS team while going to the police station.
Meanwhile, the anti-galamsey team found one (1) Smith and Wesson pistol, two (2) pistol magazines and twenty-one (21) rounds of nine-millimeter ammunition, twelve (12) assorted mobile phones, a black side bag, cash amounting to eleven thousand (11,000) Ghana cedis, one power bank, and a Lexus ignition key from the arrested galamseyers.
