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Organisation tells CHRAJ about supposed mistreatment of Atta
Mills’ bodyguards
Cape Coast, Sept. 11, GNA - Youth for leadership, a
non-governmental organisation in the Central Region on
Thursday, condemned the reported “inhuman treatment meted
out to the body guards of Professor Evans Atta Mills”, the
NDC flagbearer during the Oguaa Fetu Afahye last Saturday.
The NGO has therefore called for an unqualified apology from
the office of the President.
In a letter, lodging a formal complaint with the Commission
on Human Right and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) for
investigations into the matter, Mr John Arthur, Deputy
Organizer of the NGO said the act contravenes article 15
clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution.
He described as “barbaric and degrading” the ill treatment
meted out to the security guards of Professor Mills, by
President Kufuor’s security details, making one of them to
fall into a comma.
He also expressed his concern over why Professor Mills, the
flagbearer of the largest opposition party and former Vice
President of Ghana should be given such treatment.
Mr Arthur said the victims did not do anything wrong to
warrant such a dehumanizing torture and appealed to CHRAJ to
undertake a full scale investigations into the matter.
It would be recalled that last Saturday, the President’s
personal security, reportedly tried to prevent a bodyguard
of Professor Mills from accompanying him to a dais to
exchange pleasantries with President Kufuor and other
dignitaries at a durbar to climax the Oguaa Fetu Afahye at
the Jubilee Park also known as Victoria Park.
This resulted into a scuffle between the two security
details during which Prof. Mills’ security men claimed they
were subjected to beatings resulting in one of them being
hospitalized.
GNA
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