{"id":10629,"date":"2023-03-10T20:10:33","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T20:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=10629"},"modified":"2023-03-10T20:10:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T20:10:33","slug":"prez-akufo-addo-silence-on-ashaiman-brutalities-troubling-hon-ablakwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=10629","title":{"rendered":"Prez Akufo-Addo silence on Ashaiman Brutalities troubling- Hon Ablakwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Hon Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa<\/strong><strong> has berated President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for failing to mention the aftermath of the killing of a soldier in Ashaiman during his State of the Nation Address.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the death of a soldier in the area, some military personnel moved to attack residents of Ashaiman on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a debate on President Akufo-Addo\u2019s State of the Nation Address, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said the President should have commiserated with the families of the deceased officer and the innocent people brutalized by the military.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Commander in Chief of the GAF, he should have first of all commiserated with the family and the GAF over the loss of the solider. But the President did not say a word. He didn\u2019t think that he should condemn the brutality and assure that there will be a committee to probe the killing and the high-handedness meted out to the residents, and he is the Commander in Chief of the GAF?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama has advised the military to refrain from meting out extra-judicial justice to them adding that there are many people who live and work in Ashaiman who are innocent of this heinous crime.<\/p>\n<p>He further advised the military to exercise restraint and allow due process to work.<\/p>\n<p>For him, the government must step in to address the situation between Ashaiman residents and GAF while pushing for compensation for all persons affected<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Hon Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has berated President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for failing to mention the aftermath of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[2640],"class_list":["post-10629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parliamentary","tag-ablakwa-president-silence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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