A thirty-five-year-old man, Mukila Ziblim, has died from gunshot injuries he sustained from a stray bullet when some youth of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) attacked a collation centre before burning down the storeroom of the West Gonja Municipal Electoral Commission today, December 8th, 2024.
The media was at the hospital together with the Savannah Regional Peace Council Chairman, Rev. Fr. Lazarus Annyereh, to pay a visit to the victim only to be shown his lifeless body.
Hospital authorities said the deceased was brought to the hospital with a bullet in the left side of his chest and passed on in less than an hour.
His corpse has since been deposited in the hospital’s morgue.
It would be recalled that the Damongo Collation Centre came under attack today by some NDC youth who vandalized all electoral materials, including laptops, pink sheets, ballot boxes, and papers, among others.
The Commission’s storeroom containing valuable documents was set ablaze. But the police, in response, opened live bullets on the angry youth, leading to the shooting and subsequent death of Mukila Ziblim.
The Chairman of the Savannah Regional Peace Council, Rev. Fr. Lazarus Annyereh, expressed disappointment in the police and political leadership for the loss of Mukila Ziblim’s life.
“Let’s look at it from a dual point of view. The leadership of NDC, when they came, asked them to go into negotiations with the police, but at the end of the day, I was blaming the military, and so they withdrew their responsibility just to make sure that the youth withdrew”.
“So, have they [NDC executives] kept their part of the contract of peace? And I don’t want to blame only the police, I want to blame the leadership of NDC.”
Revered Father Lazarus Annyereh bemoaned the fact that the incident at the EC office would go a long way to create a bad image for Damongo and further tag the region as a violent region.
“I’m devastated about his death because it’s an election meant to give us good leadership, and now if the election will lead to the murder of citizens then of course it impedes our development,” Rev. Fr. Lazarus lamented.
He said people should not be dying in such a manner in an election after all the efforts made to ensure a peaceful election.
This is the third casualty in the election after two people were killed in supposed gun attacks in the Northern and Central Regions respectively.
Source: www.kumasimail.com
