Short Commission Visits Violence Scene …discovers 19 bullet marks

More than nineteen bullet marks have been identified by the Justice Emile Short Commission at the Ayawaso West Wuogon Constituency as evidence for the violence that characterized during the by-election process.

This came up when the Commission visited the scene of the violence today (1st March, 2019).

The visit at the La Bawaleshie, the violence scene was to verify the accounts given to the commission by the witnesses of the by-election shooting.

According to the Executive Secretary to the Commission, Ernest Kofi Abotsi, the visit will also help the Commission to “synthesize the facts together with the oral evidence left before it by witnesses.”

Emphasising the relevance of the inspection, Mr. Abotsi said the Commissioners “have seen things a thousand words cannot relay.”

He added that the outcome of their work, which is the recommendations must support the fact on the ground.