Kwesi Pratt blasts military over Ashaiman brutality

“I called a very senior person at the Ministry of Defense and he explained that this is an exercise to fish out suspected criminals.

This statement is in sharp contrast to all the assurances I was given.

This statement makes it clear that the sole purpose of the exercise was to find out those who were responsible for the alleged murder of the soldier,” he said on Accra-based Metro TV.

“The statement claims that this whole exercise was based on intelligence.

But clearly, this was an exercise to terrorize the whole of the Ashaiman population

He continued, “If this is the intelligence that our Armed Forces are going to be acting upon and acting in this manner, then this country is in trouble.”

“Indeed if it is true that the Inspector-General refused to allow his men and women to take part in the exercise