ASH. REGSEC RESTORES SECURITY AT KATH AFTER INVASION BY YOUTH

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The Ashanti Regional Security Council, REGSEC today, Tue Feb. 19, had to intervene to ensure that there was peace and security at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi following an invasion at the premises of the Pathology Department by some youth to demand the release of the body of the victim of yesterday’s shooting incident at the premises of the NDC’s Ashanti regional office at Amakom. 

According to a source at the Hospital, the uninvited youth were becoming agitated when they were told that their demand on the Hospital was not feasible, at least for today. The police and soldiers were called in to maintain security at the facility. 

The source said as part of the police investigation into the shooting incident, certain protocols had to be followed by the Pathologist in conducting a post mortem on the body. It said, the body be released to the bereaved family tomorrow, February 20, after the pathologist completed their autopsy. 

Thirty-year old Wassiu Iddris, husband of one with a child, allegedly suffered multiple gunshot wounds at about 12.45 pm during a misunderstanding at the premises of the NDC’s Regional office at Amakom and was pronounced dead on arrival at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital last Monday. 


The irate youth wanted the body for burial in line with Islamic tradition but the Hospital and the Police insisted that the body could only be released after an autopsy. 


Meanwhile, the surviving victim, identified as Abdul Issah, who sustained gunshot wounds in the thigh, is said to be in a very stable condition. A source at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital where he has been on admission since Monday afternoon, noted, that Issah did not suffer injury to the bone and assured that, he will likely be transferred from the Emergency Centre to the Ward today, Tuesday, for observation and care. 

In a related development, the Police in Ashanti are following leads in their investigations into the circumstances of the shooting incident. Ashanti Today’s sources in the Police Service indicate that some prominent functionaries of the NDC are assisting in the investigation for the role they allegedly played in the shooting incident but police official sources have been tight-lipped on the current status of the probe.

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