Ejura shooting probe: Ministerial Committee ends work, Chairman says the exercise was not to ridicule the Media

Chairman of the three-member committee set to investigate the Ejura shooting, His Lordship Justice George Kingsley Koomson says the committee was not set up to ridicule the Ghanaian media but rather to find facts to bring forth justice.

According to him, the demand for justice is respectable but justice rushed is not the best. He advised that “although justice delayed is said to be justice denied but it is good you go through the process so that at the end everybody will be satisfied.”

The Ministerial Committee on the Ejura Disturbances ended their work today, Friday, July 16, 2021, and the three-member committee under the chairmanship of His Lordship Justice George Kingsley Koomson has said that the Committee wasn’t set to put Ghanaian media into a public mockery.

He condemned statements made by certain persons who saw the two weeks exercise as an interruption of justice and witnesses evidence, irrelevant.

“We have not come to say anyone’s evidence is stupid or irrelevant. Whoever will describe a piece of evidence as stupid or evidence is his own problem.

"We are a fact-finding committee and we do not just accept things like that. We have to inquire when we don’t understand certain issues. One thing I have observed is that when people question some of the acts of the Ghanaians media, it does not mean they want to embarrass you.

“That doesn’t mean you are being rigid. Whoever thinks that the committee tried to ridicule any media personality I will assure them that is not true,” he added.

Asked whether any of the people who appeared before the committee at the Prempeh Assembly Hall fabricated their statements, the Committee chairman refused to divulge any of such information to the media asserting that Ghanaians will get to know the whole truth when their report is submitted.

“When a witness is testifying and you see he’s not being frank with the truth, we cannot say it in public. We will ask one or two questions to determine the veracity of the statement but I believe every witness who came to us now was truthful.”

He further advised the youth to be patient in their pursuit of justice in Ghana especially in cases that involve murder. He again reminded that defining justice is costly and time preserving hence the need to be enduring.

"What the youth need is patience. Some always demand justice but justice rushed is not the best. In some of the videos I saw online, some people were demanding justice within one week, assuming it is a murder case, can it be done within a week.

"They should most of the time exercise restraints so as to get the justice it required.”