The family of a man who was allegedly shot and killed by the police during a protest by the youth in Nkoranza has rejected a police autopsy report revealing the cause of death of their relative.
The report says the cause of death is a severe head injury and an underlying brain tumour.
The family says the police autopsy report is fraught with inaccuracies, and so there is the need for an independent coroner’s inquest.
Victor Kwadwo Owusu was allegedly shot and killed on 18 May 2022 by the police during a protest by the youth of Nkoranza in the Bono East Region.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkoranza South, Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, says he can prove that personnel from the Ghana Police Service fired live bullets to disperse the youth protesting in Nkoranza.
Nine others were injured and admitted to the St Theresa’s Hospital in Nkoranza but were later discharged after treatment.
After the confrontation, Mr. Agyekum said he could gather some empty shells of the bullets fired by the police.
Owusu was shot after the area’s youth went on a rampage and attacked the Municipal Police Headquarters to demand justice for another person(Albert Donkor), who the police had allegedly killed in an earlier incident.
The aggrieved youth attacked the police station on Tuesday, 17 May 2022 and freed six other suspects picked up by the police on suspicion of being armed robbers together with the deceased.
The police had earlier claimed that Mr. Donkor was a robbery suspect, but the locals believed the young businessman was targeted and killed by the police because he witnessed a robbery incident involving a police officer on the Nkoranza-Kintampo road.