The Member of Parliament for Walewale Constituency, Mahama Tiah Abdul-Kabiru, decried an alleged unprovoked abuse of a journalist and civilians in his constituency.
According to him, the military men were travelling in an armoured vehicle and a truck from Bolgatanga enroute to Tamale when they stopped in the Walewale Township around 1:00 pm on Monday, January 26, to engage in the assault.
They are reported to have also destroyed properties on the spot, including motorbikes and commercial vehicles belonging to the people.
“Consequently, the town has been left in unwarranted apprehension. In the case of the reporter for Media General, he was detained for more than four hours after being assaulted, and evidence of harm caused to his body, which he had taken with his phone, was destroyed,” he said in a statement.
He said checks at the District Police Command and the military stationed in Walewale suggest that they were neither informed nor engaged by these marauding military men of this dastardly act.
“This is not the first time such atrocities have been visited on innocent civilians in Walewale and its environs without any cause. You will recall that this same journalist, with 2 other journalists and several innocent civilians, was assaulted in February 2025. Some of these episodes have left some innocent civilians maimed without any compensation.
“It is troubling and near-rampant development that the military is now turning Walewale and its environs into a jungle where they unleash their unrefined atrocities on innocent civilians without remorse, conscience, or regard for professionalism. This is unbecoming of a group tasked with keeping law and order. Instead of maintaining order, these men are causing disorder.”
He, therefore, condemned it as a barbaric, unprofessional, and infantile show of brute force and demanded an immediate investigation by the Acting Minister of Defence.
“This culture of military brutality, which has become the order of the day, is a dangerous degenerative development when left unchecked by the Military Command, and could lead to military-civilian confrontation and its attendant consequences.”
Story by Hajara Fuseini
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