Cape Coast police take over investigations

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07-07-08

THE Cape Coast Police have taken over investigations into the case in which a soldier allegedly shot and killed a driver at Kasoa in the Central Region.
The KIA truck driver, Inusah, who was conveying lumber from Asamankese to Kasoa, was said to have been shot in the legs by the soldier, who was a member of the military/forestry team, last week Wednesday.
The Central Regional Police Commander, DCOP Rose Bio-Atinga, who confirmed this to the Daily Graphic, noted that nobody was above the law.
On hearing the death of the driver, some youth in Kasoa demonstrated on the main Kasoa-Bawjiase road by burning lorry tyres to protest against the action of the soldier.
The police had to go to the scene to disperse the youth, whose action resulted in heavy traffic on the road.
An eyewitness, Mohammed Howard, had told the Daily Graphic that the driver was shot after two soldiers who were in the KIA truck had struggled with him when they reached the Kasoa High Tension area.
According to Ramatu Alhassan, a lumber seller whose KIA truck was being driven by Inusah, she and the driver were on their way to Kasoa when they were stopped by the patrol team.
She said when she told the members of the team that they had “settled” their colleagues who were operating at Akwele on the Kasoa-Bawjiase road, the patrol team insisted that they had been arrested and, therefore, they should follow the team to the Forestry Commission office at Achimota.
It was while they were on their way that the driver was shot by a member of the patrol team.