Bortianor Traditional Council Demands Independent Probe Into Killing Of 5 Alleged Land Guards

The Bortianor Traditional Council is calling for an independent probe into the shooting of some individuals alleged to be land guards by police in June 2023.

Traditional leaders in the area have refuted several claims suggesting that the deceased persons were land guards terrorising residents.

Parliament set up a committee to investigate the matter.

However, the traditional leaders say the committee has failed since the members have not visited the town to make an inquiry into the issue.

Some traditional leaders of the area shared their frustration about the incident and urged the government to investigate the killings.

One leader intimated that the surrounding police commands in the area were not even aware of the raid until the killings occurred.

“The Divisional Police didn’t know anything about the incident the day it happened. The Weija District and the Krokobite Division didn’t know anything about it, and this was just about 500 meters from where the incident happened.”

He denied that the victims were armed land guards terrorising residents in the area.

“They did not have guns, and the bullet casings shown on TV were brought from elsewhere, and we know the people who did that and wrongfully killed the people,” he said in an interview monitored by The Ghana Report on Citi FM.

“The government should wake up and find a way to investigate this thing, and we are ready to give them telephone numbers to start their investigations,” the angry traditional leader added.

The leaders are not the only group calling for a probe.

The Bureau of Public Safety (BPS) also made a similar suggestion.

In a statement, BPS Executive Director Nana Yaw Akwada said that sometimes suspected victims in such cases could be innocent.