The family of late Lance Corporal Adu Teiko, a late police officer, has chided Former President John Mahama for showing a video taken at their son’s funeral, depicting violence to the diplomatic community.
According to the family, Mr Mahama is only scoring cheap political points from the diplomats.
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Mr Mahama hosted the diplomatic community in Aburi at what meeting he showed videos of the Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election shootings and in the process showed about two other videos to the diplomats.
One of the videos, the former President claimed was the funeral of the late New Patriotic Party’s Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wuogon, Emmanuel Agyarko.
In the course of showing this video, Mr Mahama alleged that some persons captured in the tape were hoodlums of the NPP, especially as they were wearing earrings and cannot be said to be a national security operative.
But the family of the late MP have since accused him of lying about the presence of attired men at their son’s funeral.
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Family members of the late officer, Lance Corporal Adu Teikoe, have emerged to discount the veracity of some videos released by the former president.
According to them, the video, which was portrayed by Mr. Mahama as filmed at the late Agyarko’s funeral was that of their late relative, a police officer and not that of the deceased lawmaker.
“The family is appalled by the conduct of the former president, who is expected to be a statesman. Accordingly, we are calling on him to desist from championing such falsehood and fabrication on the altar of political expediency. Certainly, this is not how we want to be reminded of the painful killing of our son, in [the] line of duty,” part of the statement said.
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Read the full text of the statement below
FAMILY OF LATE LANCE CORPORAL ADU TEIKO UNHAPPY WITH FORMER PRESIDENT MAHAMA
We, the family members of late Lance Corporal Adu Teiko, have noticed with great shock and disbelief, former President Mahama’s attempt to use a video which was taken at our son’s funeral, to score cheap political points during his recent meeting with some diplomats.
It would be recalled that at the said meeting, the former president showed excerpt of that video where some former colleagues of our late son in the police SWAT team were dancing to “jamma” songs, and claimed that they were NPP hoodlums dressed in police SWAT uniform at the funeral of Hon. Emmanuel Agyarko, who were later used to perpetuate violence at the Ayawaso by-election.
The family wishes to set the records straight by stating emphatically that, first of all, the video was not shot at Agyarko’s funeral but at the funeral of our son, Lance Corporal Adu Teiko, who was shot to death on July 11, 2018, at Poano-Manso.
Additionally, we wish to state that the men who were dancing to the jamma songs were indeed real police officers belonging specifically to the Kumasi Buffalo Unit, and are NOT members of any party vigilante force as President John m Mahama wanted Ghanaians and the diplomats to believe.
The family is appalled by the conduct of the former president, who is expected to be a statesman. Accordingly, we are calling on him to desist from championing such falsehood and fabrication on the alter of political expediency. Certainly, this is not how we want to be reminded of the painful killing of our son, in line of duty.
Finally, it is our expectation that former president Mahama would do the honourable thing by apologizing, first of all, to the family, and to the diplomats whom he sought to mislead, as well as to the Ghanaian people for this statesmanlike conduct.