Ejura Committee report is full of inaccuracies – Kaaka’s family
A relative of the murdered Ibrahim Mohammed has criticised the findings and conclusions of the tripartite committee of inquiry on the deadly disturbances in Ejura in June.
Nafiu Mohammed, a brother of the deceased who was popularly known as Kaaka, said on Tuesday, September 28, “you realize that there are a lot of factual inaccuracies. But what can we do?”.
“It is human beings who sat before four individuals, and they came out with this, so we have to study it. But generally. I have problems with everything about the findings and recommendations,” Nafiu told a TV station on Tuesday morning.
The deceased’s brother called into question the conclusion of the fact-finding commission that Kaaka might have been killed due to a family and definitely not as a result of his social activism.
“We, after careful examination of the evidence relating to the events preceding the death of Kaaka, are convinced that the evidence as testified to by Sadia Fuseini is more reasonably probable than the unsubstantiated evidence of Abeewakas and Sahada Hudu which are more speculations,” the report, released on Monday, September 27, said.
“We accordingly find that the death of Kaaka was not directly linked to his social media activism. It is more probably a family feud. This is also supported by the testimony of Aminu Mohammed a resident of Ejura and friend of the late Kaaka,” the three-member committee concluded.
The committee comprised George Kingsley Koomson, a high court judge, Vladimir Antwi-Danso, a security and internal relations scholar and Juliet Amoah, a tech educationist.
Meanwhile, the director, Faculty of Academic Affairs & Research, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre, Ghana, Professor Kwesi Aning, has also sought clarification for the committee’s conclusion that Kaaka was not killed due to social media activism.
Kaaka was a known critic of his local government as well as a vocal contributor on national debates through his Facebook account.
His surviving wife testified before the committee that Kaaka made some enemies due to his rants on social and political issues via Facebook.
Speaking on the same programme on TV3 as Kaaka’s brother on Tuesday morning, Prof Aning said the committee’s belief that Kaaka’s death had nothing to do with his activist efforts was “one of the disturbing [things] in an otherwise satisfactory report and very durable set of recommendations”.
The 55-page report recommended the payment of adequate compensation to the families of two deceased persons who died in a deadly protest – Abdul Nasir Yusif and Murtala Suraj Mohammed, as well as to Kaaka’s family.
It also recommended the structural expansion of the Ejura Police Station, as well as an increment in personnel to enable the police command to deal with such situations better in the future.
The report said Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Philip Kojo Hammond, should be transferred for incompetence and the fact that his relationship with the community had been damaged beyond repair.