The Ashaiman MP, Ernest Norgbey says about 34 residents who were arrested by the military on Tuesday have been handed over to Tema Police Command.
He disclosed this on Joy FM’s Top Story on Thursday.
Mr Norgbey assured that he is working assiduously to ensure that the 34 residents are released.
It would be recalled that in the early hours of Tuesday, some military personnel invaded Ashaiman after the killing of a young military officer. The soldiers brutalised several residents in the hope of finding the killers of the soldier.
According to GAF, “the military operation, which was sanctioned by the Military High Command, was NOT to avenge the killing of the soldier but rather to fish out the perpetrators of the heinous crime.”
They added that their “swoop” had led to the arrest of about 184 suspects aged between 21 and 47 years old and they have since handed them over to the military police who will subsequently send them over to the Ghana Police Service for screening and further action.
According to Mr Norgbey, although admission of excesses has been made by the Military High Command, he will not back down on petitioning the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice to investigate the incident.
This, he stated, is because he wants the officers, who were on the ground to arrest the killers of the soldier, for which reason they acted ultra vires, to be sanctioned.
Meanwhile, the Defence and Interior Committee of Parliament together with the Ministry of Defense and the Military High Command will pay a visit to the Ashaiman community on Thursday, March 16.