#FixTheCountry activist beaten to death in Ejura
A modestly popular social media user in the Ashanti Region who takes to Facebook to post critiques in the Ejura Municipality has died from injuries he sustained after a mob reportedly attacked him on June 26.
Reports indicate that Kaaka Anyass Ibrahim was attacked at about 1 am.
He is said to have shouted for help, but his rescuers only went to find him bloodied and unconscious.
He was quickly rushed to the district hospital in Ejura Sekyeredumase. Upon initial examination, caregivers at the hospital decided Ibrahim stood a better chance at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).
His brother said his skull was fractured, and there was a blood clot in the openings in his cranium.
This required an immediate operation, and it was for this reason, the Economic Fighters League (EFL), a youthful Nkrumahist organisation, solicited funds from the general public.
Ibrahim was, however, pronounced dead on June 28.
He was 40 and left behind five children.
Ibrahim’s activism
Ibrahim, identified as an NPP sympathiser by some social media users, regularly updated his Facebook page with videos detailing the lack of development in his municipality.
Ibrahim goes by the username Macho Kaaka on social media.
A cursory look through his posts shows that the deceased was interested in social issues significantly.
He was also known by the EFL, an organisation that champions economic development.
The conveners of #FixTheCountry, a non-partisan sociopolitical activist movement, also issued a statement after Ibrahim’s death was announced.
The release referred to Ibrahim as “our colleague and friend”.
Just like the statement offered by #FixTheCountry, various reports from sections of the Ghanaian media suggest that the attack suffered by Ibrahim was connected to his social media-based activism.
Ibrahim’s tendency to post videos of abandoned and unattended infrastructural needs earned him enemies who issued threats.
A brother of the deceased was quoted as saying: “Our brother did not do anything to anyone. He was only expressing his views, and so those who are responsible for the attack must be found and made sure they pay for their action”.
Tensions
Reports say Ibrahim seemed to have attracted the attention of both praise singers and detractors who were at opposite ends as to what they thought about his activism.
According to both the statement issued by #FixTheCountry campaigners and media platforms, Ibrahim was issued a police letter that told him to desist from an “offensive behaviour”.
The caution was due to photos of some sites he documents on Facebook.