A leading member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Kakra Essamuah has ridiculed the Wuako Commission’s report on the Ya-Na murder describing it as “a useless piece of work”.
According to him, so far as two sets of accused persons who went on trial for conspiracy and murder of Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II were largely based on the outcome of the Wuako Commission’s report and were acquitted and discharged renders the report useless.
The Wuaku Commission was set up by President John Agyekum Kufuor in 2002 under Article 278(1) of the Constitution, to investigate the tragic disturbances which occurred in Yendi between 25th and 27th March, 2002, resulting in the death of the overlord of Dagbon Ya-Na Yakubu Andani II.
Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen programme Monday, Kakra Essamuah explained that in 2003 two people who were on trial for conspiracy and murder of the Ya-Na based on the Wuako Committee report were acquitted and discharged and the second set made up of 15 people who were recently also acquitted and discharged indicate clearly that the report is a total waste of time.
He questioned the credibility of the chairman of the Commission, Justice Wuaku of doing an objective work to help bring the killers of the Ya-Na to book because he had been accused of being the Chairman of the Progress Party now the New Patriotic Party in the Volta Region.
Lawyer Essamuah also took a swipe at Professor Kwesi Yankah, a Professor of Linguistics and Mrs. Florence Brew, an Educationist who were members of the Wuako Commission, saying they have very little experience in criminal matters and so will not be able to offer a very good counsel to Justice Wuako.
He compared their competence to that of the members of a Presidential Commission established by ex-president Rawlings made up of a former Chief Justice, a former Commissioner of police in charge of CID and the then Chairman of the Christian Council of Ghana to investigate the murder of the three high court judges.
He said the Presidential Commission after their investigation, found the killers of the judges and they were prosecuted.
“compare that set of human beings dealing with a murder case to that of the Wuako Commission”, Lawyer Essamuah pointed out.
He noted that the essential question for all Ghanaians to ask is “who killed the Ya-Na and the 29 others”.
Meanwhile, another legal practitioner, Nana Asante Bediatuo, a panelist on the programme disagreed with Lawyer Essamuah in his description of the Wuako Commission report as useless.
He said the Commission wrote their report based on information they had during their investigations and therefore cannot be blamed for any wrong doing.
Bediatuo however agreed that if thorough investigations were conducted into the Ya-Na murder, the perpetrators would have been brought to book.
Play the attached audio for excerpts of the interview
Story by: Adwoa Gyasiwaa/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana
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