Bawah Mohammed Braimah, Ejura-Sekyedumase Member of Parliament, is requesting that the government cover all medical costs and adequately compensate the injured victims of the Ejura shooting incident.
According to him, the government has shifted its attention away from injured victims and onto the dead.
The MP made the statement after a visit to some of the victims of the rioting.
He said that it is unacceptable for the government to be preoccupied exclusively with those who have died.
“I am very sad and disappointed in the Regional Security Council, especially the Regional Minister because this incident happened last week Tuesday, and it was reported that six people have been shot and two have died. Per the narration of the minister, he said he deployed the soldiers and the fallout was that four are injured and two have died, you only focused on the dead and left those who got injured,” he lamented.
He said that the Ashanti Regional Minister must take full responsibility for the day’s events and immediately suspend military deployment for domestic security purposes.
“That is unacceptable, and I demand that the Regional Security Council takes up the medical bills of the victims and also ensure that they are adequately compensated because it is no fault of theirs that they are here. It is through the recklessness and wanton deployment of the military that has caused this thing… The wanton deployment of the military in our internal security operations is not helping us,” he added.
Meanwhile, doctors at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital amputated a teenager’s right leg after he was wounded during last week’s disturbances.
He is one of four people who suffered gunshot wounds after the deaths of two others when troops opened fire on demonstrators in Ejura.
Awal Misbawu, the victim, was first sent to the St. John of God Hospital in Duayaw-Nkwanta and was subsequently transferred to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, where the victim’s leg was amputated on Saturday.
Salamatu Mohammed, the victim’s mother, said that her son is in pain.
“So the child was crying so painfully, and we had to call on our chief who in turn also called a doctor for us and the child was admitted. So he [the Doctor] informed us that the leg cannot be worked on, so he has to be amputated. So that has been done, and my son is in pain right now.”
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SOURCE: ATLFM ONLINE
