The Member of Parliament for the Ningo Prampram, Samuel George says he cannot identify the second person who assaulted him in the Ayawaso West Wuogon constituency during the by-election held in the area.
He told the Emile Short Commission that the second assailant was masked.
“I was not able to get a clear look at the second person who assaulted me. He appeared to be wearing a mask or helmet and came at me from my blindside,” he told the Commission.
Sam George had been assaulted by some masked men who were deployed to by the National Security to provide security at the by-election.
He gave the name of his first attackers as Sule.
The Ningo Prampram legislator also told the Commission that he suffered some injuries from the attacks.
“I had lacerations on my hand as well as swellings on my neck and a little above my shoulders,” he said.
No one died
Sam George also clarified that no one man had been killed in the shooting incident contrary to the claims he made on the day of the by-election.
Sam George was seen yelling in on camera saying ‘this is so wrong; will you kill a man in his own house?’
But when asked by the Commissioners today if he could identify the said man and how he knew if the man had died, the legislator said there was no time for him to make those determinations.
He said he indeed raised that alarm following the motionless body of the man and his blood-stained shirt as well as some complaints from some of the eyewitnesses.
“The sequence was barely five minutes after the assault on the man. We had stumbled upon him in that house. So I assumed at a point in time that was his house. Same way I assumed based on the assault I had seen carried out on him and his emotionless body that he was deceased. There was no reasonable way for me to have carried out further verification in the space of time and in the sequence of event. It would have unreal except I want to create something but speaking to the facts as I know them I didn’t have the benefit of how he died.”
Sam George has now confirmed that the man he claimed had died still alive.
He presented 29 bullet casings he claimed were fired by the national security operatives to the commission.
No death recorded in Ayawaso shooting incident – Police
Hours after the shooting incident at Ayawaso West Wuogon, the Ghana Police service debunked claims that lives have been lost in at the La Bawaleshie voting centre during the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election.
According to the police, six persons were injured during the shooting incident and were sent to the 37 military and Legon hospitals for treatment.
The Police service also disclosed that the Inspector-General had directed the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department to speed up investigations into the incident.
“The attention of the police administration has been drawn to a shooting incident at Bawaleshie, Accra this morning, in the course of the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency by-election, leading to the injury of six persons. As of now, there is no record of death resulting from the shooting incident.
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By: Nii Larte Lartey | citinewsroom.com |Ghana| nlartelartey@gmail.com