Deputy police chief interdicted …over Islamic school shooting

DCOP AKWASI Akomeah-Apraku, the Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, has been interdicted with immediate effect, the Police Administration has said.

ACP George Ankomah, the Ashanti Regional Operations Officer and ACP Alex Cudjoe Acquah, the Suame Divisional Police Commander, have also suffered similar fate.

The police hierarchy has found the aforementioned officers culpable of wrongdoing when police officers fired shots to disperse rioting Islamic SHS students in Kumasi.

As a reminder, armed police officers fired warning shots to disperse students of Islamic SHS, who had then blocked the Abrepo Junction to Bohyen road on Monday morning.

The students took that weird action to protest against frequent car accidents in front of their school.

The IGP, Akuffo Dampare even visited the school after the shooting.

In a press release, the police administration said policemen sent to the Islamic SHS to disperse students from the road
did not perform professionally as expected of them.

“The police responded to disperse the students and open the road to normal traffic flow. The students pelted the police with stones and the police used pepper spray and fired warning shots in an attempt to disperse them.

“It was further established that even though nobody was hit by a bullet, the police handling of the incident was poor and fell short of our standard operating procedure on crowd control”, the release said.

Written by Chief Supt Grace Ansah-Akrofi, of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, the statement said thorough investigations into the shooting incident were underway.

“The Police Professional Standards Bureau (PPSB) are investigating the case”, the statement said and added that peace and order had been restored in the school, so far.

In a related development, the Deputy Education Minister, Ntim Fordjour, has called for calm in the school so that academic work could resume uninterrupted.

“We would like to assure parents and guardians of the safety and security of their wards, as full academic work starts tomorrow Tuesday, June 14,”, he remarked.