The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkoranza South, Emmanuel Kwadwo Agyekum, has filed a motion in parliament for bi-partisan probe of the alleged extra-judicial killing by police officers of a man they had arrested taken into their custody in his constituency.
The MP says it is in the interest of everybody that the full facts surrounding the death of Albert Donkor come to light.
He is eager to see that anybody found to have acted wrongly is punished.
The deceased, Albert Donkor, was said to have been picked up from his mother’s property at Kasadjan in Nkoranza by the police on suspicion that he was involved in a robbery attack that happened on the Nkoranza-Kintampo road, taken to the bush, shot and killed, his body dumped in a police pick-up vehicle and carried to Accra.
The police account is however different. The police insist that the man was a robber and killed in a firefight.
James Agalga, the MP for Builsa North, has accused the police of trying to cover up the execution-style murder of the 27-year old man.
“The report clearly does not speak to the fact that Albert Donkor died in police custody and for me that is the beginning of the cover up.”
The MP, who is the Ranking Member on Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament and served as Deputy Interior Minister in the Mahama Administration, vowed that the minority in parliament will file a motion for a parliamentary probe of the extrajudicial killing.
The family of Donkor claims that their relative was killed to destroy damning evidence he had against some police officers he caught right in the act of robbing people.
The youth of Nkoranza angered by the killing of one of their own, violently clashed with the police, resulting in fatalities – a student killed and some other people injured.
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