Brigadier General of the Ghana Armed Forces, Nsiah Yeboah is assuring Ghanaians that Military men in the country are professionals.
According to him, widely circulated videos depicting military brutalities following the partial lockdown are false.
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“Whatever it is, be assured that your soldiers are professionals, they don’t brutalize. Most of us Ghanaians are religious and we know that telling lies about somebody is something that God does not permit. So those who are doing it, I don’t know what your agenda is, stop it,” he pleaded during a live televised address to the nation on the partial lockdown.
He added that “We are achieving the objectives we set for ourselves. Some few may fall victim to the law so we are trying our best to make them understand,” he said.
“All the videos you are seeing, they are false. So it is never true that our soldiers are brutalizing our Ghanaians, we will not do it. Those in command will never permit it. Let us support the soldiers on the field, it is in our own interest to support them,” he advised.
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President Akufo-Addo imposed a two-week partial lockdown in certain areas including the Greater Accra Metropolitan area and Greater Kumasi Metropolitan Area to stem the spread of the infectious virus.
Since then there have been reports of security personnel deployed to enforce compliance of the lockdown meting out some sort of punishments to citizens for flouting the president’s directive.
Some videos making rounds show uniformed soldiers brutalizing people.