One hundred eighty-four (184) people have been arrested at Ashaiman-Taita in the Greater Accra region by the military, in connection with gruesome killing of a young soldier, Trooper Imoro Sherrif.

Sherrif was allegedly lynched in the early hours of Saturday 4 March, 2023, while going to visit his parents.

According to a news release by that Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) and signed by the Director General of Public Relations, Brigadier General E. Aggrey-Quashie, the arrest was a swoop conducted by the military.

The release indicated that Personnel of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) on Tuesday 7 March, 2023, conducted a swoop at Ashaiman and its environs in a man-hunt for some criminals, who were suspected to have stabbed and killed a young soldier.

It said the young soldier was stationed in Sunyani, was in Accra on a course and had sought permission to visit his parents at Ashaiman where he grew up but was found in a pool of blood in the early hours of Saturday near the Amania Hotel in Ashaiman. 

GAF wishes to state categorically that the military operation, which was sanctioned by the Military High Command, was NOT to avenge the killing of the soldier but rather to fish out the perpetrators of the heinous crime. Following the operations at Ashaiman-Taita and Tulaku, the military personnel picked up about 184 suspects ued belwoen 2) und 47 yours old und huve since hunded than over tu the Military Police who will subsequently hand them over to the Ghana Police Service for screening and further action.

During the course of the swoop, the personnel seized 29 slabs and 57 mini slabs of narcotic drug suspected indian hemp and amnesia respectively among other forms of narcotics. 

GAF also wishes to place on record that the swoop was not targeted at innocent civilians but was an intelligence-led operation conducted at suspected hideouts of criminals and crime-prone areas in the general area. 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. 

GAF accordingly wishes to urge the general public to provide useful information, support the Security Agencies in weeding out criminals and miscreants from our communities and to desist from shielding and conniving with such suspects in order to curb criminal activities in the country.