Ejura Committee report is porous, out of mandate and lacks humanity – Kaaka’s family
The Ejura Committee has continued to receive bashing from the family of the late Ibrahim Mohammed also known as Kaaka since its report was released, the recent one being a press briefing organized by the family today to express their thoughts on the report.
According to the spokesperson of Kaaka’s family, Abdul Nafiu Mohammed, the Committee in gathering its report left humanity and conscience aside.
He stated that the Committee had no mandate to probe what caused Kaaka’s death and that was stated in clear terms when the late Kaaka’s wife Madam Sahadatu posed a question to that regard when she appeared before the Committee during its sitting.
Stating that “at no point previously, had the committee taken the trouble to clarify its mandate to the witnesses who appeared before it.”
But according to the family spokesperson, 40 per cent of the Committee’s findings were hinged on Kaaka’s death.
“In response to Saada, the committee made it clear that it had no business looking into the death of Kaaka. They admitted on camera unequivocally that because the matter was under investigation by the police, it will be improper for them to intervene on those issues. Despite all these, the committee went ahead and made 40% of its findings about the murder investigations into the death of Kaaka”
According to Nafiu Mohammed, this was one of the reasons why the family had initially intended not to appear before the Committee but they had rescinded that decision and hence their disappointment at the report the committee released.
The family reiterated how baffled they are at what they termed the “selective evidence” the Committee chose to dwell on during their sitting and indicated that the Committee should have at least taken the trouble to verify some of these incidents on the late Kaaka’s Facebook page.
This makes the Committee’s report look porous according to the family.
Also, the family expressed their disappointment with Dr Vladimir Antwi Danso, a member of the Committee for saying people do not have the right to question their work, deeming it as unacceptable.
One Aminu Mohammed was also accused by the family of peddling falsehood in the story he narrated between Iddi and Kaaka when he spoke to the Justice Johnson Committee during their sitting, stating that no matter what the truth will always win.
The family continues to insist that Kaaka made a video in which he complained that his life was in danger pointing out that some members of the New Patriotic Party are claiming he [Kaaka] is making the party unpopular, and also Kaaka had accused the Municipal Chief Executive of sending people to warn him.
They also lamented about the fact that no government official including the Inspector General of Police had engaged them on the way forward since the release of the report. They deem that insensitive and in that regard leave members of the Committee to their conscience.
Aside from the accusations, the family also stated that they do not want compensation without justice like in other instances that happened in Ayawaso West Wuogon where victims are still crying two years after the incident.
A decision has been taken by the family to seek legal redress to bring finality to the matter and to bring those they claimed bore false witnesses during the Committee’s sitting to book.
Protest over the death of Ibrahim Mohammed (Kaaka) at Ejura in the Ashanti Region led to clashes between protesters and the Police and Military personnel deployed to the area to restore order. The clashes resulted in the death of two people which prompted President Akufo-Addo to direct the Interior Minister to form a 3-member Committee of Inquiry to probe the causes of the incident and offer recommendations to avoid future occurrences.
The Committee after days of sitting and weeks of waiting finally released its report last week but that has since received varying degrees of criticism from many persons and groups, key among them being the family of Kaaka whose murder sparked the project at Ejura.
By: Stella Annan | myactiveonline.com Twitter @activetvgh
