A growing call has been made on President John Dramani Mahama and the current leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to, immediately intervene in the wrongful arrest and detention of some sympathisers of the NDC from some fishing and farming communities in the Afram Plains of the Eastern Region.
According to the residents, these NDC members who are natives from three Tongu constituencies namely Mepe, Sokpoe, Tefle and Bakpa living in various towns in Afram Plains South and North Districts of the Eastern Region were arrested and detained by police in Nima and Cantonment Police cells for nine (9) months on suspicion of murder.
It was revealed that some double agents and hired informants or snitches were paid to identify the homes of the suspects at midnight.
This has led to their arrest and detention by the police first for three weeks at Donkorkrom, the constituency capital of Afram Plains North and later to Nima and Cantonments police cells in Accra for nine months now.
The suspects are Gideon Amedofu, 63-years,Tetteh Avlime Amedofu, Emmanuel Azalu,
Thompson Father Amedofu, Moses Awi, Agbesi Amlade, Ernest Amlade, Robert Adator, Bright Waleku, Charles Kaleh, Agbeko Agbodza, Godwin Agbodza and Alormenyo Sokah.
These are suspected NDC functionaries or supporters in various electoral areas in Afram Plains South and North who the previous regime targeted to be used to suppress voter turn-out or gerrymandering in the 2024 parliamentary and presidential elections.
The wrongful detention of the suspects has sparked tensions and confusion in the communities for which the residents called on President John Dramani Mahama to intervene to safeguard the lives of these innocent people.
They were arrested without any serious evidence or proof from Togorme, Kwame Gyamera, Forifori, Sakabo, Avukorfe and Sihu Norfegali.
According to the residents, Emmanuel Azalu, Agbesi Amlade Ernest Amlade,Moses Awi and Robert Adator, have been admitted to bail but are yet to meet the GH₵20,000 court bail condition for the past three months and are still in police cells.
Sadly, they lamented the long detention of the suspects in police cells has forced many of them to fall sick and that some of them are on the verge of dying.
“Our health conditions have become very worse and we are experiencing a decline in health with the likelihood of death imminent. So we are appealing to our President John Dramani Mahama to come to our aid because the charges preferred against us are forge.
“We have not committed any murder as claimed by the the Assembly member of Ada Korpe electoral Area, Honourable Nicholas Taklo Tsornyake and his associates. All what the allegations they making against us of murder were certainly false and lies, the suspects have spoken through sources closed to them.
The health conditions of the suspects in the two police cells in Accra, this news outlet gathered have been characterized by a range of physical changes, including increasing weakness, difficulty in breathing, and reduced responsiveness.
Some of the suspects complained of having waist, chest and stomach pains, making them vomit frequently.
Other detainees have reported being starved in their cells, describing experiences of limited or no food, along with other forms of abuse and neglect.
These accounts often include details of physical violence, lack of hygiene, and other forms of inhumane treatment.
The innocent people, according to information available to this news outlet are entering the final days or hours of their life if care is not taken.
An attempted shooting incidence of gunshot with Pistle after a football match at one of the villages where none of the suspects attended as spectators or played any part over six years unknown to the remaining suspects was brought against them by the alleged complainant who is the Assembly member of Ada Korpe electoral Area, Honourable Nicholas Taklo Tsornyake was part of the reason they are being arrested and detained further at the two police separate cells in Accra.
It was revealed that the main murder suspect’s name is Bruneri Amadu.
He is a fulani and that he was arrested from Ekye Amanfro.
