Commander in charge of the National Security Special Weapons and Tactics Unit [SWAT] team, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Samuel Kojo Azugu has admitted he ordered his men on operation to fire six warning shoots to scare unidentified persons firing bullets at the voting areas.
According to him, none of the nine arrested persons brought to his custody were injured, rather he believes a guy who for one reason or the other had blood stains in his singlet did that on his own by using his singlet to clean a cut on him.
DSP Kojo Azugu admitted that his guys over reacted.
“I agree my boys overreacted in arresting them . . . it was not in the proper manner; they did not handle them in a professional way, the way they were taught to do, based on that we have initiated disciplinary action. Their action of minimum force that we saw was too much for all of us,” he told the Commission of Inquiry.
Meanwhile he confirmed to the Commission that to the best of his knowledge none of his guys on the day carried guns on operation even though some were masked.
Source: Elizabeth Semiheva Bedi/Peacefmonline.com
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Really? So are you trying to tell us the video we saw are not real? What about the guy whose leg was shattered by that of a bullet? Or his leg was shattered by a stone? What about the video where some one was beaten until he fell to the ground and the guys followed up by kicking him whilst he was still on the ground? I listened to his account to the commission and even his English proficiency seems to be at the level of an average JHS student. How can semi-illiterates with almost no training in arms handling be allowed to do what they did? And now this azugu guy is lying through his teeth about everything that happened? Which of the bye-elections is he talking about? He should be fired!
God have mercy oo, if u saying this, how would u go to heaven? u saw only a blood stains in 1 persons singlet? and only 6 bullet was shot at the crowd? how come the media reports that over 100 bullets were shoot in the air? i wish to believe that the Commission of enquiry will complete a good work?