The family of a deceased person has appealed to the government to set up an independent, credible and transparent enquiry into the circumstances that led to the shooting of Kofi Nkrumah by the police at Sefwi Wiawso on December 11.
The family of the deceased insist their relative was callously murdered for no justifiable cause.
The story put up by the police, they said, is a complete fabrication to cover up their unprofessional conduct and deny the late Nkrumah justice.
A statement the family issued in Kumasi and signed by their Spokesman, Mr Kwasi Adu, said they wanted the truth about what actually happened to be unravelled and the offenders punished.
It denied that the group of young people including the deceased, who together with Mr John Chikah, a leader of one of the factions to the Sefwi-Wiawso chieftaincy dispute, were armed with offensive weapons.
"There was and could therefore not have been any exchange of gunshots between them and the police," the statement said.
It poured scorn on the police's claim that Nkrumah attacked and attempted to disarm the policemen whose shot killed him.
Shedding some light on the incident, the statement said on the afternoon of that day Mr Chikah and the group of young people had entered the living quarters attached to the Chief's Palace through the eastern entrance.
As they approached the living quarters, which is separated from the main palace by a wooden barricade, the youth sang, drummed and danced.
Nkrumah had bent to pick his fallen cell phone from the ground when the police for reasons difficult to rationalize shot him on the forehead killing him instantly.
The statement said there was no physical contact and there could not have been a struggle between the armed policeman and the deceased.
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