President JEA Mills says he feels frustrated and anguished by the High Court’s ruling that acquitted and discharged some 15 persons standing trial for the murder of the late overlord of Dagbon, Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II.
He said it was regrettable that some people were rejoicing over the judgement.
“As a nation, we must be interested in justice. A lot of people are talking about the ruling; it is not whether it is brilliant or not brilliant, the fact still remains that the Ya-Na was murdered… and as a nation we should be interested in finding out who killed the Ya-Na,” he stated.
Addressing journalists after a crunch meeting with members of the Andani Royal Family at the Osu Castle in Accra, President Mills said, “I feel nothing but pain, pain, that we are unable to find the killers.”
An Accra Fast Track High Court, presided over by Justice E.K. Ayebi, freed 15 people the state accused of conspiring to murder the Ya-Na.
This was immediately followed by widespread jubilation in Dagbon by family members and supporters of those who were released by the courts.
Some members of the Andani family however went on rampage destroying properties belonging to the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in reaction to the ruling.
President Mills has however promised he will not relent on his decision to ensure that those behind the murder of the Ya Na are brought to book.
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