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A multimedia Journalist, Erastus Asare Donkor has revealed to the Committee set up to investigate the Ejura riot how the military officers deployed to the scene shot through the demonstrating crowd to disperse them.

According to him, when the military came to the scene he saw them shooting in the air but later lowered their guns to shoot into the crowd who were chanting towards them.

The multimedia Journalist was invited to the committee chaired by His Lordship Justice George Kingsley Koomson to render his eyewitness account on the Ejura riot which resulted in two deaths because he was one of the few people who reported the protest live from the scene before and during the arrival of the security personnel.

Some angry youth took to the streets of Ejura in the Ejura-Sekyedumase Municipality of the Ashanti Region to protest against the murder of one social media activist, Ibrahim Mohammed popularly known as Kaaka, but the protest turned bloody when the security forces made up of the police and military clashed with the irate youth.

“As I stood on top of an uncompleted building with my news team, I realized that one of the protesters had been shot in the leg and was trying hard to crawl, whiles groaning in pain”.  

"As I observed, some of his people tried to help but the shoot-out was getting worse so they left him behind and later gathered courage to carry him on their shoulders," he said.

When asked where these military officers had come from, Erastus said they came in with vehicles branded as “Covid safety" and as soon as they arrived, the police personnel retreated.

"One guy who tried to protect us from his fellow protesters when we came to the riot scene was later found dead in a pool of blood by the road as he had been shot," he told the committee.