The Chronicle’s sources in the Ashaiman Divisional Police Command say it is false that a soldier was slain in Ashaiman in the small hours of last Friday.
Last Friday, social media reported the alleged killing of a soldier in Ashaiman, which sparked apprehensions among residents who reminisced about the brutality several innocent locals suffered at the hands of scores of heavily armed soldiers who took over the constituency in March last year, after the gruesome murder of Imoro Sheriff, a soldier with the 3rd Infantry Battalion.
Given the tension the social media reports created, thereby, causing fear and panic among most residents who feared going out on Friday, The Chronicle contacted its sources in the area’s police who described the news as false.
The deceased, Eric Baidoo, was a 47-year-old second-hand cloth dealer whose sobriquet was ‘soldier’, the source said, adding that he was allegedly stabbed to death at the Kufuor Station by some unknown assailants on Thursday night.
The sources within the police service said that the body had been deposited at the Police Hospital morgue for autopsy while investigations had been launched into the incident by the Ghana Police Service.
