The Commission of Inquiry into violence during the Ayawaso West Wuogon
by-election has heard the testimony of a National Democratic Congress
(NDC) MP who claimed a man was killed in the chaos.
NDC MP for Ningo-Prampram, Sam Dzata George, explained that he had
assumed the man was dead because he was lying motionless. He also
assumed the house in which the injured man in a white-shirt lay was
where he lived.
That is how come he was stumping up and down the La Bawaleshie polling station, screaming, “you kill a man in his own house.”
That comment went viral as some media networks relayed unverified information that the violence had claimed at least one life.
Providing his testimony at the Emile Short commission in Accra, the NDC
MP said he witnessed the shootings while standing by the residence of
his party’s parliamentary candidate in the by-election, Delali K.
Brempong.
While with a SWAT team that had engaged an agitated crowd, he heard several gunshots and took to his heels.
After seeing a man lie motionless, he would later hear a woman
identified as a deputy NDC National Womens’ Organiser Maame Efua
screaming “they have killed him! They have killed him!”
The NDC MP said putting the motionless man he saw and the testimony of a
frenzied, wailing Maame Efua he believed the man was dead.
He told the Commission in the moment of political violence, he took
refuge in an uncompleted building with other frightened Ghanaians.
Sam George, who was later assaulted, explained there was no time for him
to verify that there had been a fatality during the shooting.
The NDC MP said he has found that the man he believed was dead was in
fact alive, “thank God” and is a cousin to the deputy NDC National
Women’s Organiser.
The violence during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election recorded 15
injuries, some from gun shots. Nine persons have been arrested but no
one has been prosecuted.
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