Commander in charge of the National Security Special Weapons and Tactics Unit [SWAT] team, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Samuel Kojo Azugu has admitted he ordered his men on operation to fire six warning shoots to scare unidentified persons firing bullets at the voting areas.
According to him, none of the nine arrested persons brought to his custody were injured, rather he believes a guy who for one reason or the other had blood stains in his singlet did that on his own by using his singlet to clean a cut on him.
DSP Kojo Azugu admitted that his guys over reacted.
“I agree my boys overreacted in arresting them . . . it was not in the proper manner; they did not handle them in a professional way, the way they were taught to do, based on that we have initiated disciplinary action. Their action of minimum force that we saw was too much for all of us,” he told the Commission of Inquiry.
Meanwhile he confirmed to the Commission that to the best of his knowledge none of his guys on the day carried guns on operation even though some were masked.
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