ZONGO YOUTH GIVE POLICE 4-DAY ULTIMATUM

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A group of agitated Zongo youth in Kumasi have given the Ashanti regional Police Command up to Monday, the 18th of June, to release for burial in line with the tenets of Islam, the body of a 25-year old man who was killed by the Police at Suame nearly a month ago. 

The angry youth have threatened to advise themselves should the Police Command fail to meet the ultimatum and also fail to give any tangible reason/s for the murder of the young man. 

The highly incensed Zongo youth invaded the Asawase Central Mosque in the Asokore Mampong Municipality with placards bearing inscriptions of various messages including ‘Zongos are not Animals’. 

They took advantage of the Eid ul Fitr congregational prayers to officially mark the end of the month-long Ramadan fast to proclaim their anger. 

The demonstration was to draw attention of the leadership of the Zongo and Muslim communities to what they claim to be a deliberate targeting of Zongo youth by the Ashanti regional police in the name of crime combat. 

A leader of the group, Seidu Abubakar told journalists that in the last eight months, the Police have killed eight Zongo youth under very questionable circumstances with the latest one being a 25-year old resident of Kenyase in the Ashanti region.

 He said Zongo communities and Muslims in general are law abiding and by nature, ‘very good people who continue to make significant contribution to development of the country.’

Abubakar questioned why the police will not allow any relative the deceased to witness autopsy carried out on the body of the victim. He called on the Minister for Zongo and Inner Cities Development and leaders of the Zongo and Muslim communities to intervene.

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