The Wa Municipal Chief Executive, Tahiru Issahaku Moomin is not convinced by explanations given by the anti-robbery unit of the Upper West Regional Police Command for the killing of a resident of Dondoli, a suburb of Wa.
The deceased, Abubakar Shahban is reported to have been killed by the police anti-robbery taskforce over his alleged connection to a robbery gang that has been operating within Wa and its environs.
Mr. Moomin who also grew up in the Dondoli community and knows the deceased doubted the explanations of the police and called for an independent committee to be established to further probe the murder.
Speaking on Eyewitness News on Citi FM, Mr. Moomin said it will be hard for him to wholesomely take the police story as the truth without an independent inquiry.
“We sat on the matter and called the police and the family of the deceased to a meeting and they both gave different reports and we concluded that we have to forward our report to the Regional Security Council and that is what we have done but we will ask that an independent body be commissioned to further probe the killing.”
Family of the deceased said he left home on March 8 at about 8:00 pm to visit a friend but did not return until they were informed of his murder on March 9.
Some residents of Wa on Friday besieged the Regional Coordinating Council and demanded the release of the remains of the deceased and demanded he is cleared of the robbery allegations.