The GAF has updated on its social media sites a public statement it issued on Tuesday, March 7, regarding a section of its members brutalizing some Ashaiman residents.

The date on the earlier press statement had 7 March, 2022 but its latest statement has 7 March, 2023.

On March 7, 2023, about 20 military officers invaded Ashaiman, restricting free movement of residents.

The Tuesday imposed curfew, per reports, comes as a response to the murder of a military officer over the weekend.

Reports say a male soldier was beaten to death by unknown civilians in the area.

The soldier, Trooper Imoro Sherrif, who was based in Sunyani but enrolled in a degree in Accra, had asked for permission to visit his parents in Ashaiman, where he was raised. Nevertheless, he was discovered in a pool of blood early on March 4, 2023, next to the Amania Hotel in Ashaiman.

According to the GAF, about 184 suspects aged between 21 and 47 years old in relationship to the murder of the deceased are yet to be handed to the Ghana Police Service.

“During the course of the swoop, the personnel seized 29 slabs and 57 mini slabs of suspected Indian hemp and amnesia among other forms of narcotics. The Ghana Armed Forces wish to put on record that the swoop was not targeted at innocent civilians but was an intelligence-led operation conducted on suspected hideouts of criminals and crime-probe areas in the general area. The GAF, however, acknowledges that regrettably some innocent persons might have been caught up in the operation and consequently suffered some distress due to the location they found themselves at the time,” a statement signed by Brigadier-General E. Aggrey Quashie, the Director-General, Public Relations of the Ghana Armed Forces said.