Accra, Nov. 3, GNA – It is evident that some Witnesses at the National Reconciliation Commission public hearing would not give the grisly aspects of their stories although they had stated them in the written statements to the Commission.
One such Witness is Ex-Warrant Officer II Albert Agyekum, who admitted to the Commission on Monday that his genitals were pulled when he was being tortured at the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) for alleged complicity in a coup plot in 1988.
Although that was part of his written statement, Ex-WO II Agyekum, formerly of the Two Brigade in Kumasi, initially avoided that in his oral evidence, and only spoke on it later when the Commission drew his attention to it.
“My lord, it’s true, but we can’t tell everything in public,” he told the Commission.
The Commission resumed its public hearing in Accra on Monday after sitting in camera the previous week.
According to the Witness, he was visiting his brother, Col. Owusu Agyekum, then a medical officer at the 37 Military Hospital and former Minority Leader in Parliament on the ticket of the National Convention Party.
The brother lived at Juba Ridge at Burma Camp, he said. He said within 10 minutes after his brother had returned home from work, a group of security personnel, led by Mr Peter Nanfuri, came to search the residence, then at Juba Ridge in Burma Camp after which they invited the two of them to come along to the BNI.
The Witness said at the BNI, he and his brother were separated, interrogated, and later taken round some parts of Accra. He was later detained at the BNI Annex for a year.
Source: GhanaWeb
