Ayawaso West Wuogon Election Violence: ASP Azugu cooperating with NIB – President Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama has disclosed that the commandant of the National Security SWAT team, implicated successful the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence, is presently assisting with ongoing investigations by the National Intelligence Bureau.

In a nationalist broadcast marking his 120 days successful bureau connected May 5, 2025, President Mahama said ASP Samuel Kojo Azugu is cooperating with the probe aimed astatine identifying and prosecuting individuals progressive successful the January 31, 2019, violence, during which 18 persons suffered assorted injuries.

“Concerning the January 31, 2019, Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence, wherever eighteen persons suffered injuries from individuals aboriginal identified arsenic National Security operatives, we volition not fto that substance dice without justness being served to the victims. ASP Azugu, who was profoundly progressive successful the unit and atrocities connected that day, is presently cooperating with the National Intelligence Bureau to identify, arrest, and prosecute each those involved,” helium stated.

The president, who was accounting to Ghanaians connected the presumption of 25 cardinal promises made to the electorate arsenic portion of his societal contract, provided further updates connected his committedness to reopen investigations into large unsolved transgression cases, including election-related crimes.

“Delivering justness is important for nationalist healing and spot successful our institutions. We promised to reopen investigations into large unresolved transgression cases, including the 2020 Election killings, the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence, and the murders of Ahmed Hussein-Suale and Silas Wulochamey. The caller Inspector General of Police has established a peculiar taskforce, investigations person been reopened, and advancement is being made. In the tragic execution of Ahmed Hussein-Suale, six years later, the Police Service made an arrest, and the fishy was arraigned earlier a tribunal and remanded,” the president said.

According to the president, investigations into the 2020 Ghana predetermination unit crossed aggregate constituencies are progressing, with authorities pursuing justness for victims. In Techiman South, wherever 2 radical died, probes into the incidental continue.

In Odododiodoo, wherever 2 fatalities occurred, 3 individuals look conspiracy and execution charges and are acceptable for proceedings astatine the High Court. In Ablekuma Central, a subject serviceman allegedly linked to a decease is nether scrutiny, with the transgression country revisited and a petition made to the Chief of Army Staff to merchandise progressive unit for questioning.

In Banda, the lawsuit of Silas Wulochamey’s death, antecedently closed owed to insufficient evidence, has been reopened pursuing caller actionable intelligence. In Dormaa West, wherever Kofi Robert was killed, 1 fishy is connected trial, portion different remains astatine large.

In Savelugu, efforts to place the shooter liable for the decease of 16-year-old Zakaria Samira are ongoing, hampered by uncooperative witnesses.

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