Human rights lawyer Francis-Xavier Sosu said he would ask President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to fire the Inspector General of Police (IGP) following the death of Shadrach Arloo, 32, who died after a scuffle with an officer Police station at West Hills shopping mall.
He called on IGP Dr. George Akuffo Dampare to resign immediately after the suspect of abuse.
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Sosu, who was also a lead adviser to Shadrach Arloo, reacting to the autopsy report released by the Ghana Police Service, said the security agency rushed to issue a statement because what they published was not is the full report of the autopsy.
Earlier, the police autopsy report confirmed Shadrach Arloo died of suffocation and airway obstruction by the foreign body.
According to the autopsy report, the deceased had in fact eaten what police believe was marijuana.
But the lawyer who was also the legislator for Medina disagreed and said that “when it comes to homicide, be it first-degree murder or second-degree murder or in our case manslaughter or either intentional killing or negligent killing, there are several intervening factors because assuming that what police said is true and that he was choked on a foreign substance, it means that while this substance was in the throat of this young man, police managed to apprehend him.”
Explaining to the people of Ghana what happened in the scuffle that led to Shadrach Arloo’s death, in a magnified interview on TV3, Francis Sosu said that although the deceased’s hands were not even handcuffed , but his fingers may have threaded into his throat to cause him to pursue foreign substances.
“But police handcuffs the guy, leave him on the floor and get others to either beat him or tase him on the floor until he died on the floor and so in recounting events leading to the death of this person, police conveniently blight all these things and simply say it’s because he got choked off the foreign substance.
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“For me, police are being disingenuous, police are not being truthful, police is not being candid and that is bad policing,” he stated.
Sosu stressed that the police cannot forgive him in this incident and are taking a cautious stance to shirk responsibility.
He called on the police to open an investigation into the young man’s death and ensure that anyone accomplices is punished, and called for the IGP to resign immediately.
“If he [Dr. George Akuffo Dampare] fails to resign we are going to petition the President to remove him from office because you cannot be the head of police and see your officers misbehave this way and yet you want to use your own system to cover up for them,” he added.
