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Nana Akomea, the Chief Executive Officer of the Intercity State Transport Corporation (STC), has called on Parliament to summon the Military High Command over the military brutalities at Ashaiman in reaction to the death of a young soldier.

Imoro Sherrif, a 22-year old military recruit, was killed in cold blood and his lifeless body left in the Ashaiman community.

In response to the death of the soldiers, some soldiers entered Ashaiman and subjected every resident they met to pitiless punishment involving whipping and causing some to lie prostrate in mud.

Some critics have condemned the soldiers but the Military High Command says they sanctioned the operation.

Nana Akomea, commenting on the brutalities, condemned the leaders of the Ghana Army for allowing their officers to terrorize the Ashaiman residents.

"This doesn't befit the Ghana Military . . . it is time, as a democratic country, to review this whether a procedure or behaviour because the democratic culture doesn't go with this kind of action from the soldiers. It doesn't!"

According to him, "this is a mob action and this action should not be coming from the Ghana Military".

Nana Akomea asked the Parliamentary Committee to interrogate the leaders who authorized the military operation.

"I wish the Parliamentary Committee would summon the officers who gave those orders to explain their basis for allowing their military boys to do what they did", he said while speaking to Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" show.