Security analyst, Colonel Festus Aboagye (Rtd), has rebuked the Ghana Armed Forces for using force during recent disturbances at Bawku.
The military has been accused of killing ten civilians to which the Ghana Armed Forces denied and explained that its personnel only moved to the area to neutralise some residents who were firing sporadically.
GAF explained that personnel from the Force “conducted cordon and search operations together with Bawku Police at Pateleme General Area” to disarm residents.
Colonel Aboagye intimated that the outcome of the supposed cordon and search activity has defeated the explanations given by the military in the area because the exercise didn’t yield any seizure of the weapons for which the exercise was conducted.
“Any activity that the military conducts must have at least two dimensions; it must have the technical military dimension and information and you can reinforce your information activity by presenting the evidence so at the end of cordon and search operation, weapons should have been seized and presented for all to see,” Col Aboagye told Selorm Adonoo on Eyewitness News.