[ 2019-02-27 ]

Short Commission: Police yet to retrieve 37 spent bullet shells
Accra, Feb 27, GNA – The Police are yet to
retrieve 37 spent bullet shells, which were in the
possession of a youth leader at the scene of the
La-Bawaleshie violence during the January 31,
Ayawaso West Wuogon Parliamentary by-election.

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Abena
Benewaa Kwabena, the District Crime Officer of
East Legon Police District told the Ayawaso West
Wuogon Commission of Inquiry that she and
Detective Chief Inspector Sulley Jallo came across
a youth leader at the scene of the violence at
La-Bawaleshie in possession of 37 spent bullet
shells, which he declined to hand over to them.

She said, Detective Chief Inspector Jallo was able
to speak to the youth leader in Hausa and
convinced him to allow him to take pictures of the
spent bullet shells.

She noted that Detective Chief Inspector Jallo
questioned the youth leader what he was going to
use the spent bullet shells for and he replied
that they were going to use it to make their case
against the men in brown trousers and black
t-shirts.

She said Detective Chief Inspector Jallo was able
to find out that the youth leader lived in Weija.

DSP Kwabena noted that prior to getting to the
house of Mr Delali Kwesi Brempong, the National
Democratic Congress Parliamentary Candidate in the
by-election, she passed through the La-Bawaleshie
Presbyterian Primary School, where she met two
junior high school students between the ages of 11
to 14, who were having in their possession two
spent bullet shells.

She said the children after handing over the two
spent bullet shells to her, told her that they
picked it within the school compound.

She said from the Presby School they then moved to
the violence scene, where she helped to preserve
some evidence such as blood clots on the ground
and bullet marks on two trees and a metal
container.

She said it was when they were at the scene of the
violence that she learnt that some eight people
had being brought to the East Legon Police Station
by DSP Samuel Kojo Azugu, the Commander of the
Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team of the
National Security.

DSP Kwabena said, she therefore, asked Detective
Chief Inspector Jallo to go back to the office to
see what was happening.

She said when she got a report from Detective
Chief Inspector Jallo that seven out of the eight
people were wounded, she asked that they be issued
with police medical forms for them to be taken to
the Legon Hospital.

She noted that, she later visited the seven people
at the Legon Hospital; adding that their
statements were taken at the Legon Police
Station.

She said the eighth person, who said he was not
part of the people who were beaten however, had
his statement taken at the East Legon Police.

She said, she was informed that one of the
critically wounded was referred to the 37 Military
Hospital.

Mr Eric Osei-Mensah, the Counsel of the
Commission, aske DSP Kwabena why she did not take
the spent bullet shells from the youth leader, for
which she explained that the atmosphere at the
scene was not conducive enough for her to take the
spent bullet shells from the youth leader.

She said, after the violence, they were now trying
to get in touch with the youth leader for the 37
spent bullet shells.

Regarding the two spent bullet shells, the Counsel
again asked DSP Kwabena whether she had informed
any of her superiors or handed them over to the
police team looking into the matter, which she
replied that she was waiting to take possession of
the 37 spent bullet shells to add up to the two in
her possession before handing them over to the
investigative team.

By Iddi Yire

Source - GNA

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