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Four people sustained gunshot wounds, whiles six others were picked up for questioning in the Brong Ahafo Regional capital, Sunyani, during the �We are suffering demonstration� held on Thursday by Organized Labour.

Narrating the incident on NEAT FM, Nana Opoku Piesie, the News Editor of the Agoro FM who was one of the wounded told Adakabre Frimpong Manso that, after an hour long walk through the principal streets of Sunyani, the leadership of the demonstrators decided to address the gathering and move on to the Office of the Regional Minister to deliver their petition, whiles the crowd wait at the Sunyani Central Post Office.

��the demonstrators refused and insisted on going to the Regional Minister�s office too. They then started chanting we will go! we will go!. It became a tussle between the TUC boss in the region and his members as they attempted to snatch the petition from him. He then began running away, with the protestors close in pursuit.

��it was a highly charged atmosphere so all I realized was firing of tear gas, followed by gunshots. We all run helter-skelter for our lives but it got to a point when I stopped to catch my breath when I felt a sharp pain on my nose and began bleeding profusely. Upon looking down I saw two blue balls right in front of me. I was not the only one hurt by the shooting. There were three others,� he recounted.

The News Editor of Agoro FM remarked that the demonstration in the Brong Ahafo Region was shameful.

��we have disgraced ourselves. It has not been peaceful but was characterized by mayhem and the spilling of blood�.

But in a separate interview with the Brong Ahafo regional Minister, Hon. Eric Opoku he emphatically stated that there were no gunshots fired.

��no guns have been fired here in the Brong Ahafo Region. It�s not true if anyone says gunshots have been fired here,� he claimed.
Though he admitted to the fact that, he was not a witness to the incident, Hon. Eric Opoku vehemently refuted the claim that gunshots were fired leading to the injury of four people in the procession.

He only described the occurrence as a fracas which ensued between the leadership of the demonstrators and certain elements in the crowd but promised to launch an investigation to ascertain the facts of the issue.

Meanwhile, the four wounded individuals, including the Journalist from Agoro FM are receiving treatment at the Sunyani Municipal Hospital whiles the six, who were arrested have been released on bail.