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Police response to Suhum killings angers local youth Club
Accra, Feb. 18, Ghanadot/GNA- Leavers'
Club (LECS), a Suhum-based youth club, on Monday expressed
dismay at the manner in which the security agencies,
especially the police, were handling the issue of killings
that have recently engulfed the area.
"We the youth of Suhum will like to state in no uncertain
terms without fear, favour or malice that the District
Security Council has goofed big time and that it needs to
sit up because this concerns the shedding of innocent blood
not forgetting the emotional turmoil the victims' families
will be going through,” a statement signed by Mr Osei-Poku
Agyeman, Executive Secretary of the club, said.
He said the number of police personnel sent to Suhum to
tackle the problem was inadequate and their strategies to
fight the menace were outmoded.
Mr Agyeman said "It will interest you to know that the 60
policemen that have been brought to post in the town are
woefully inadequate since they cannot live up to the task."
He urged government to set up a special task force to
investigate the gruesome killings in order to bring the
perpetrators to book.
Mr Agyemen said "We will also call on the Interior Minister,
the Eastern Region and Suhum District Security Councils to,
as a matter of urgency, re-strategize and intensify their
bid to put a stop to this pain in the neck."
He also called on the inhabitants of the area to exercise
restraint and be calm whilst the security agencies map up
strategies to end the unwarranted insecurity.
Several people have been killed in the Suhum area in recent
weeks raising concern about security as the perpetrators
have not yet been apprehended.
GNA
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