Former President Rawlings has welcomed the arrest of five soldiers allegedly implicated in the murder of former Ghana Commercial Bank Deputy Managing Director, Roko Frimpong.
In a statement issued on Friday the former President said every effort must be made to apprehend perpetrators of various crimes during the past administration.
“We should be particularly concerned about the lack of investigation in the Ya Na case and shocked at the escape of a suspect in the Issah Molbila murder case. Previous investigations on the Ya Na murder lacked integrity.”
The former President said serious crimes had been perpetrated for political expediency over the past eight years and these had to be exposed quickly to avoid cover-ups.
“I have been speaking about criminals walking about freely, some of whom were pushed into uniformed institutions. These people have been used as agents of sabotage, some used to assassinate fellow soldiers and made to look like suicide, a police officer shot in the back in the Volta Regional Minister’s residence, arson and a host of other crimes.”
The former President said the arrests go to prove that some of the admissions into national institutions had been corrupted by NPP’s political manipulations. He called on these institutions to purge themselves and restore their past enviable integrity.
An Accra-based newspaper on Friday reported that the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI), in collaboration with the Defence Intelligence have arrested and placed five soldiers in custody over the gruesome assassination of the late Roko Frimpong, then Deputy Managing Director In-charge of Operations of Ghana Commercial Bank in 2007.
On June 28, 2007, three armed men gunned down Roko Frimpong at his home in Tema. His assassination came in the wake of several suspicious and unexplainable gun murders.
Source: Office of former President Rawlings/http://jjrawlings.wordpress.com
Nana Agyin
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... We are not serious.We must learn to be human and stop this greedy kill him politics.We should learn to learn for we are lacking behind.Is the blackman really capable to manage his or her own affairs?From Osagyefo,s time to this modern Ghana it,s always the same",clear him off for me to go my way"It,s all a sin which doesn,t move a nation forward.May God bless my Homeland Ghana. |
KWABENA NTOW.-CROYDON LONDON
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... CRIME,ESPECIALLY KILLING SOMEONE COS OF POLITICS OR WHATSOEVER IS AN ACT WE SHOULDNT ACCEPT IN GHANA.HOWEVER,IF ANYONE SHOULD BE TRIED FOR KILLINGS IT SHOULD BE J J RAWLINGS BEFORE ANYONE ELSE.WE SHOULDNT FORGET THAT NOT MANY YEARS AGO RAWLINGS BROUGHT THIS WICKED CULTURE TO GHANA SO ITS FUNNY ND ANNOYING FOR HIM TO ACT INNOCENTLY.HE ORDERED MASS KILLINGS TO FORMER HEADS OF STATES ND MANY PEOPLE.HE SHOULD FILL GUILTY ND STOP THAT NONSENCE,HE MUST BE PROCECUTED |
BONDOH 20
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... WE ARE ALL ENTITLE TO OUR OPINIONS HOWEVER WE MUST STOP BLAMING EACH OTHER INTERMS OF HUMAN LIFES. THE EX PRESIDENT HAVE DONE SO MUCH FOR THIS COUNTRY AND WE MUST RESPECT HIM FOR THAT. WE SHOULD ALSO KNOW THAT THERE IS NO A PERFECT MAN ON THIS PLANNET. EX PRE. IS AHUMAN BEING AND GHANA CANNOT PAY HIM FOR HIS EFFORT FOR THE TODAY GHANA. I DISAGREE WITH KWABENA TO CHEAPLY JUDGE HIM IN THIS WAY. I WILL SURELY EXPRESS MY VIEW LATER. BUT NOW WE SHOULD NOT JUDGE WITHOUT ADDING FACTS LIKE KWABENA DID. |
